The Clive Lones Morgan This particular Morgan Aero was specially built to order for the well known UK light car driver Clive Lones in 1929 to take a JAP 996 cc JTOR/Y 51 bhp V twin engine. Clive Lones raced the car regularly at numerous races between 1929 and 1935 and held a total of 37 world records fitted with various capacity engines to increase the number of classes it could compete in, the most enduring of these was to be the first light car to exceed a 100 mph lap on Brooklands dangerous outer circuit in 1930, this lap was actually measured at 101 mph, in 1935 the car achieved 116 mph. Forth wheel addedWhen rule changes reduced the the number of eligible light car races a three wheel car could be entered in during 1935 Clive Lones decided to fitt a normal two wheel axle to the rear of the Morgan and then raced it as a four wheel light car until the outbreak of WW2. Clive Lones 1929 Morgan JAP Aero is currently on display at Brooklands Museum. |