Isn't that what I said to correct myself. I too looked it up in Climax in
Coventry, after my first mis-step thinking it might have been an Elva. Note, I
put ???? after Elva, then remembered I had a copy of that chapter here in my
desk, so I looked it up and fired back a correction. I just didn't get qute so
specific about drivers and dates of development. Not so sure it was in
production in 1951, but they had a prototype running in September 1951.
Roger
>>> <MGVADICK@aol.com> 04/11/01 12:48PM >>>
Roger, Re FWA use in a race car application, I have a different story. My
research indicates that Cyril Kieft was the first to put the FWA Climax into
a race car. Chapman, Cooper and Harry Lester all did like wise in 1954. A
development of the FW (feather weight) in production in 1951 at 1020cc, the
FWA race car debut was at the 1954 LeMans race where it was fitted to a Kieft
to run in the 1100cc class. The car ran over 10 hours before non engine
related problems took them out. Later that same summer, two Kiefts and a
Lotus raced at the Dundrod TT with the 1100cc FWA. Ferguson and Rippon took
the class win in their Kieft to give the Climax engine its first success.
Ref. Climax in Coventry by Walter Hassan - Pg. 78
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