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The Centenary Edition c1990-91 Lister-Jaguar 'Knobbly' Competition Sports Two-Seater Chassis no. BHL 145

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 343

The Centenary Edition c1990-91 Lister-Jaguar 'Knobbly' Competition Sports Two-Seater Chassis no. BHL 145

Schätzpreis
0 $
Zuschlagspreis:
282.000 $
Beschreibung:

During the 1950s the sports-racing cars produced by Brian Lister in Cambridge, England, became the dominant force not only in ‘free-Formula’ British sports car racing but also in Sports Car Club of America national Championship competition. The exploits of Walt Hansgen and Ed Crawford in the Briggs Cunningham team cars are still recalled with awe by all who followed the 1958 and 1959 SCCA series, and the legend of the ‘Knobbly’ Lister-Jaguars and Lister-Chevrolets has lived on in their memory. Brian Lister was the grandson of family company founder George Lister, and it was in 1890 that Geo. Lister, Charles Flatters and Harry Branch had formed a partnership in Cambridge, setting-up a general engineering, blacksmith and wrought ironwork shop in Abbey Road there. As his partners retired and his sons Alfred and Horace joined the business, so it became ‘Geo. Lister & Sons’ in 1919. Horace subsequently became sole proprietor in 1930 after the early death of his brother Alfred, and then their father. Horace’s sons Raymond and Brian subsequently became directors, acceding to joint Managing Directorship in 1954. In the 1920s, Alfred Lister had briefly added the words “and Automobile Engineers” to the company title, but after his premature death it was lost…until Brian Lister developed his interest in motor racing from 1948, when he had his first competitive outings in a Morgan 4/4 sports. He then built himself a Cooper-MG sports car assisted by like-minded Lister apprentice Edwin ‘Dick’ Barton. He then raced his own Tojeiro-JAP named the Asteroid after his interest in astronomy, but due to its driver-frightening track behaviour it was generally better known as the ‘Haemorrhoid Tojeiro-JAP’. Young Brian became great friends with a one-handed fellow enthusiast living in Cambridge who proved to be a world-class racing driver – young Archie Scott Brown. When they were joined by local motor engineer Don Moore the triumvirate had been formed which would create the brief but immensely successful series of Lister sports-racing cars. Brian set up his own company ‘Brian Lister (Light Engineering) Ltd’ to build the racing cars, and they emerged with MG, Bristol, Jaguar, Chevrolet and even Maserati engines from 1954-1959. The most famous model of them all was the ‘Knobbly’ – just study this car’s body shape to appreciate how the nickname came about – and long after Brian Lister had closed his car manufacturing business (following Scott Brown’s fatal accident at Spa, Belgium, in May 1958) these great cars became the sports-racing backbone of the Historic and Vintage racing movements on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1990, celebrating the centenary year of Geo. Lister & Sons Ltd, Brian built just four special ‘Centenary Edition’ Lister-Jaguar ‘Knobbly’ cars which may be considered as ‘younger sisters’ of the original batch of probably no more than 17 original ‘Knobbly’ cars constructed in 1958. Lister enthusiast and today’s manufacturer of Lister cars, Lawrence Pearce, encouraged Brian Lister to launch this project. Adding to their immaculate provenance, these ‘Centenary’ cars were hand-crafted by the original build team, headed by superb welder Bob Gawthrop, and craftsmen fabricators Ken Hazelwood, Colin Crisp and George Tyrrell. They were made to the same exacting standards and quality which had so impressed Briggs Cunningham 32 years previously, and these centenary-edition Lister-Jaguars were finalized and marketed by Lawrence Pearce in England. This particular example – which is incorrectly listed as BHL 149 in Doug Nye’s book Powered by Jaguar– was completed expense-no-object by Lawrence Pearce for British racing personality John Lewis David Clark subsequently raced the car at the Barcelona GP support event in the early 1990’s. Lawrence Pearce recalled it as being “the car that got me back into racing,” launching his highly successful Lister Storm racing program. The present vendor (an established Pearce customer) acquired the car from Pearce

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 343
Auktion:
Datum:
15.08.2008
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
Carmel, Quail Lodge Quail Lodge's West Field 7000 Valley Greens Drive (at Rancho San Carlos Rd) Carmel CA 93923 Tel: +1 415 391 4000 Fax : +1 415 391 4040 motors.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

During the 1950s the sports-racing cars produced by Brian Lister in Cambridge, England, became the dominant force not only in ‘free-Formula’ British sports car racing but also in Sports Car Club of America national Championship competition. The exploits of Walt Hansgen and Ed Crawford in the Briggs Cunningham team cars are still recalled with awe by all who followed the 1958 and 1959 SCCA series, and the legend of the ‘Knobbly’ Lister-Jaguars and Lister-Chevrolets has lived on in their memory. Brian Lister was the grandson of family company founder George Lister, and it was in 1890 that Geo. Lister, Charles Flatters and Harry Branch had formed a partnership in Cambridge, setting-up a general engineering, blacksmith and wrought ironwork shop in Abbey Road there. As his partners retired and his sons Alfred and Horace joined the business, so it became ‘Geo. Lister & Sons’ in 1919. Horace subsequently became sole proprietor in 1930 after the early death of his brother Alfred, and then their father. Horace’s sons Raymond and Brian subsequently became directors, acceding to joint Managing Directorship in 1954. In the 1920s, Alfred Lister had briefly added the words “and Automobile Engineers” to the company title, but after his premature death it was lost…until Brian Lister developed his interest in motor racing from 1948, when he had his first competitive outings in a Morgan 4/4 sports. He then built himself a Cooper-MG sports car assisted by like-minded Lister apprentice Edwin ‘Dick’ Barton. He then raced his own Tojeiro-JAP named the Asteroid after his interest in astronomy, but due to its driver-frightening track behaviour it was generally better known as the ‘Haemorrhoid Tojeiro-JAP’. Young Brian became great friends with a one-handed fellow enthusiast living in Cambridge who proved to be a world-class racing driver – young Archie Scott Brown. When they were joined by local motor engineer Don Moore the triumvirate had been formed which would create the brief but immensely successful series of Lister sports-racing cars. Brian set up his own company ‘Brian Lister (Light Engineering) Ltd’ to build the racing cars, and they emerged with MG, Bristol, Jaguar, Chevrolet and even Maserati engines from 1954-1959. The most famous model of them all was the ‘Knobbly’ – just study this car’s body shape to appreciate how the nickname came about – and long after Brian Lister had closed his car manufacturing business (following Scott Brown’s fatal accident at Spa, Belgium, in May 1958) these great cars became the sports-racing backbone of the Historic and Vintage racing movements on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1990, celebrating the centenary year of Geo. Lister & Sons Ltd, Brian built just four special ‘Centenary Edition’ Lister-Jaguar ‘Knobbly’ cars which may be considered as ‘younger sisters’ of the original batch of probably no more than 17 original ‘Knobbly’ cars constructed in 1958. Lister enthusiast and today’s manufacturer of Lister cars, Lawrence Pearce, encouraged Brian Lister to launch this project. Adding to their immaculate provenance, these ‘Centenary’ cars were hand-crafted by the original build team, headed by superb welder Bob Gawthrop, and craftsmen fabricators Ken Hazelwood, Colin Crisp and George Tyrrell. They were made to the same exacting standards and quality which had so impressed Briggs Cunningham 32 years previously, and these centenary-edition Lister-Jaguars were finalized and marketed by Lawrence Pearce in England. This particular example – which is incorrectly listed as BHL 149 in Doug Nye’s book Powered by Jaguar– was completed expense-no-object by Lawrence Pearce for British racing personality John Lewis David Clark subsequently raced the car at the Barcelona GP support event in the early 1990’s. Lawrence Pearce recalled it as being “the car that got me back into racing,” launching his highly successful Lister Storm racing program. The present vendor (an established Pearce customer) acquired the car from Pearce

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 343
Auktion:
Datum:
15.08.2008
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
Carmel, Quail Lodge Quail Lodge's West Field 7000 Valley Greens Drive (at Rancho San Carlos Rd) Carmel CA 93923 Tel: +1 415 391 4000 Fax : +1 415 391 4040 motors.us@bonhams.com
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