Martin Squires Automotive Illustration: September 2016

Thursday, 29 September 2016

Kop Hill Climb, 2016

As always the Kop Hill Climb was a fantastic event with the paddock brimming with two three and four wheeled machines from the pioneering days to the modern this event has it all. This year I was only in attendance for one day and so I decided to concentrate on motorcycles. I soon realised that there were too many great machines to sketch in ink on the day and so I stuck with pencil sketches that were inked at leisure in the studio.

The last 2 machines seen below were both on the London Motorcycle Museum stand. I urge you to visit this museum and please support this invaluable collection of machines, which exists in a city that is increasingly expensive for endeavours such as this.

1929 Levis 6 Port

(ink sketch)

1922 Sunbeam Longstroke Racer

(ink sketch)

Velocette V Twin Custom

(ink sketch)

Sheffield-Anderson Sprinter

(ink sketch)

1929 Triumph OHC

(ink sketch)

NSA George Brown Memorial Sprint, 2016

On 11th September, after travelling for 4 hours I arrived at East Kirkby airfield for the NSA George Brown Memorial Sprint. The drive was well worth it as the pits were packed full of great examples of vintage, classic and modern sprint bikes. John Hobbs was in attendance with 3 machines including the legendary Hobbit and Olympus, historic machines from the golden age of drag racing in the UK.

"The Hobbit"

(ink sketch)

Velocette Sprinter

(ink sketch)

"Leigh" Rudge 500cc Sprinter

(ink sketch)

Tuesday, 6 September 2016

Syston Speed Trials 2016

For the first time since 1939 the Syston Speed Trials were held at Syston Park near Grantham Lincolnshire. The event was very low key and benefited from this as it provided a very relaxed and informal atmosphere, concentrating on enjoying motor sport on this historic hill climb. I concentrated on sketching motorcycles but there was a great variety of 4 wheeled entrants in the form of vintage sports cars, Edwardian race cars and hill climb specials. Hopefully this event will become an annual affair that sticks to the high quality of entrants and limited public tickets as it certainly made for a refreezing change to more heavily attended events which have their own merits.