Dellow-"The Lightweight"

Hatched up, partly in Tony Marsh's garage and at the Dellow Motors Works, a speed hill climb car took shape using the Dellow "rocket tubes" for the chassis and some novel suspension ideas; add an Elva OHIV head on a Ford 100E engine coupled to a Morris 4 speed gearbox, a 4.4:1 ratio rear axle and a really impressive aluminium skin by Lionel Evans' Company, Radpanels. - Here was "The Lightweight". the tuned engine probably produced of the order of 60 - 65 bhp with a body weight somewhat less than the production Mk5 which followed, a power to weight ratio of the order of 145bhp/ton. 

I seem to remember the XK120 having 130bhp/ton!

This was the car which gave A.E.(Tony) Marsh the taste for speed which led to his two hat tricks as British Hill Climb Champion in 1955/56/57 and 1965/66/67 but sadly, not in a Dellow. Here he is in the Lightweight at an event at Silverstone in the fifties.

This was the basis for the fabulous Dellow MkV. featured on another page.