Cooper Mk1 1.5 litre/1961 (T53P)

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For the 1961 season Cooper mostly used the Lowline technolgoy, taken over from the 1960 works cars, and fitted 1.5 liter FPF engines. So we have the T53 in a production version, and Doug Nye speaks about the T53P.
To add to the confusion, there were three workscars used in 1961, referred to as T55.

The Cooper Chassis records have the following list (again faithfully copied from Doug Nye's book) for 1961. So there are 19 cars on the list, of which three are T55s (or "Slimlines") and two are T58s, and were actually completed in 1962, when the V8 engine became available.

Cars completed.

F1-1-61 Yeoman Credit
F1-2-61 Yeoman Credit
F1-3-61 Camoradi
F1-4-61 Yeoman Credit
F1-5-61 Bob Stilwell
F1-6-61 J. Lewis
F1-7-61 R. Walker
F1-8-61 R. Bartram
F1-9-61 B. Collomb (France)
F1-10-61 Workscar 1 (T55)
F1-11-61 Workscar 2 (T55)
F1-12-61 Workscar 3 (T55)
F1-13-61 BP Trading/Centro Sud
F1-14-61 R. Penske
F1-15-61 J. Sharp (Hap?)
F1-16-61 Momo Corp
F1-17-61 Workscar 4 (T58 V8)
F1-18-61 Workscar 5 (T58 V8)
F1-19-61 Okura Trading

Shown are the following cars, again with the apparent identity at the time of the picture.....
F1-3-61
F1-9-61
and F1-15-61
Furthermore I have added two unidentified cars: one of the Yeoman Credit cars, shot at Zolder in 2003 and a car entered by Syd Hoole during an event in Zandvoort in 1988..