Lea-Francis was a British motor manufacturing company that began by building bicycles. R. H. Lea and G. I. Francis started the business in Coventry in...
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1966. The Lea Francis cycle and motorcycle business had been formed by Graham Francis and R.H. Lea in 1895, who was the son of Graham Francis who manufactured...
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Bill Whitehouse Connaught-Lea-Francis A Lea-Francis 2.0 L4 D Bill Whitehouse 5 Leslie Marr Connaught-Lea-Francis A Lea-Francis 2.0 L4 D Leslie Marr 5 R...
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instead as the Clairmonte Special, a two-seat sports car powered by a Lea-Francis engine. A mid-engined sports car, launched in the early 1970s. It was...
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Team Connaught-Lea-Francis Type A Lea-Francis 2.0 L4 D Tony Rolt 6 Ecurie Ecosse Connaught-Lea-Francis Cooper-Bristol Type A T20 Lea-Francis 2.0 L4 Bristol...
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Connaught Type A Lea Francis L4 SUI 500 BEL FRA GBR 16 GER NED ITA Ret NC 0 1953 Connaught Engineering Connaught Type A Lea Francis L4 ARG 500 NED Ret...
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driver, in this case Duncan Hamilton. The Connaught team ran a quartet of Lea Francis-engined entries — McAlpine, Downing, Thompson and Poore — while the remainder...
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MGA), and one chassis was built to accommodate a customer's 2+1⁄2-litre Lea-Francis engine. In 1955, the company started development of new semi-spaceframe...
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2 "A" types, used an engine that was developed by Connaught from the Lea-Francis engine used in their "L" type sports cars. The engine was extensively...
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laps, and was won by British driver Roy Salvadori in a Connaught Type A-Lea Francis, setting fastest lap in the process. Bob Gerrard in a Cooper T23-Bristol...
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and 1.4-litre engine type named the Triumph 10/20 designed for them by Lea-Francis, to whom they paid a royalty for every car sold. Production of this car...
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250F, who also set fastest lap. Bill Whitehouse in a Connaught Type A-Lea Francis and Jimmy Somervail in a Cooper T20-Bristol were second and third. "1954...
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Connaught-Lea Francis A Type Lavant Cup 3rd R.R.C. Walker Racing Team Connaught-Lea Francis A Type AMOC Trophy 3rd R.R.C. Walker Racing Team Connaught-Lea Francis...
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manufacturer for this purpose. Alvis, Aston Martin, Lagonda, ERA and Lea-Francis were considered. In May 1945, a chance discussion took place between...
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chambers. The car was designed by Arthur Davidson who had come from Lea-Francis. A higher output engine came in 1927 with the two-litre Speed model which...
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Connaught-Lea-Francis 61 Not Classified 22 NC 30 Ken Wharton Cooper-Bristol 57 Not Classified 19 NC 24 Kenneth McAlpine Connaught-Lea-Francis 56 Not...
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Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and Preservation. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780429753428. - Total pages: 406 Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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Automobile Industry: Multi-Level Governance, Policy and Politics Taylor & Francis e-Library 2005. accessed 31 Jan 2013 Elliott, Larry (22 November 2000)...
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engineer Alexander Craig and was a variant of a design he had done for Lea-Francis having a 2-cylinder 1,853 or 2,471 cc (113.1 or 150.8 cu in) engine....
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Riseley-Prichard Connaught-Lea-Francis 1:57.0 + 12.0 22 23 Leslie Marr Connaught-Lea-Francis 1:57.3 + 12.3 23 26 Leslie Thorne Connaught-Lea-Francis 1:57.8 + 12.8...
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Connaught-Lea Francis Connaught A Lea Francis 2.0 L4 D 30 Dennis Poore Connaught-Lea Francis Connaught A Lea Francis 2.0 L4 D 32 Stirling Moss Connaught-Lea Francis...
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2:02.0 + 14.0 19 10 Prince Bira Connaught-Lea-Francis 2:04.0 + 16.0 20 15 Ian Stewart Connaught-Lea-Francis 2:04.0 + 16.0 21 19 Alan Brown Cooper-Bristol...
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"Lessons for Tomorrow from the Old Rolls-Royce" a 1973 Flight article by Francis Rodwell Banks Catalogue of the Rolls-Royce Joint Shop Stewards' Combine...
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