KTUD Automotive Archive

Silverstone, 1950. Reportedly the Lagonda behind the Buckler once belonget to Lord Brabazon
Great Auclum hill-climb, June 1950	Silverstone at an Eight Clubs meet

Mike Parrott, first owner of the first production Buckler Mk 5, registered ERD 96 recalls the story:


I don't have any written records on the Buckler and all this is about 50
years ago so we'll have to trust my memory.  I got ERD 96 from the
factory in early 1950 in finished condition.  It had the usual tubular
frame with auluminum body panels . The body was built at a local Reading
factory and I think the man who did the actual work had done the body on
one of Malcolm Campbel's Bluebird record cars in the 1930s.  My car had
the usual 1172cc Ford engine with compression raise to about 8:l. It had
twin S.U. carbirettors.  The front  axle was split as usual but this led
to  some funny stresses  and the stub axles fractured at the steering
link joints. I had one accident as a result  and afterward kept an eye
on them.

Derek Buckler's own car DDP 201 - I believe - had
the radiator behind the engine to get weight further back for tial work but
the Bucklers were no match for the specialist cars of the period.


I ran my car in club races at Silverstone,Goodwood and the like
and in the easier trials like the Land's End and in sprints and
hillclimbs at places like Gosport, G reat Auclum, Trengwainton and other
events.

ERD 96 had a windscreen that slid into the scuttle like the Silverstone
Healey. This windscreen was removable and could be replaced by two small
aeroscreens.