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Don Parker and Bill Whitehouse get a push at Ostend in August 1950. Photo courtesy Maurice van den Brempt

Alan Brown (Beart Cooper) and Eric Brandon (Cooper Mk VII) hold hands. Bertie Bradnack watches on. Crystal Palace Opening Meeting May 1953.

Photo courtesy of the Klemantaski Collection www.klemcoll.com

Mike Gilbert at Prescott in 1960. The car is a Cooper Mk V, with a modified nose for which he paid £145. The radical new helmet with the side pieces on cost a fiver and the ex-RAF goggles were half a crown.

Chris "Ginger" Fergusson at Grand Central circuit near Johannesburg in 1954. Photo courtesy Rob Young.
 

Phil Hill tries Richard Frank's Cooper for size at Monterey 2006. Photo courtesy of Karol Andrews.

Chris Featherstone lifts a wheel in the Emeryson.

Cooper in ice racing trim.

Photo courtesy of Reijo Heurlin

Moss rolls his Cooper at Castle Combe in October 1953 during the Formula Libre race. He was struck by Rolt's Connaught at Quarry and retired to Bristol Infirmary....

A lovely shot of a Mk V Cooper at Brands Hatch in September 1952. Photo courtesy of Nick Coe.

A paddock scene from Santa Barbara in 1955. Courtesy of Doug Stokes.

Roy Mayne at Blandford in 1956. Photo A. Hollister.

Moss and Russell with their winners garlands, 1954. Photo courtesy of John Furlong.

The start of the BRSCC 500 race at Crystal Palace in May 1955.

Test Day at Brands Hatch, Stuart Lewis-Evans in discussion with John Furlong. Brother Adrian to the right. Photo courtesy of John Furlong.

A Brace of Coopers at the International Sports Car Show.

Racing drivers always get the pretty girl! The Cooper streamlined car.

Evelyn Kindersley "Pip" Pulliblank in his Marwyn JAP with the rear bodywork removed. Photo Courtesy of Irene Pulliblank.

Forming the grid at Roskildering, Denmark, in 1958.

Streaming through the new Druids hairpin in December 1954. Photo by Ian Frost.

The start at Crystal Palace in 1954. Photo by Ian Frost.

You don't get this with modern racing! A Cooper at the limit.

The starting grid at Brands Hatch, September 1950. In the early days, cars raced anti- clockwise.

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