Hersham and Walton Motors (HWM) is the world's longest established Aston Martin business, having acquired the franchise in 1951. As a racing car constructor, HWM competed in Formula One and Formula Two, and in sports car racing. Hersham and Walton Motors was founded in 1938 by John Heath, an excellent race driver and talented engineer.

The HWM 51 was an open-wheel race car, designed by Briton John Heath, and developed and built by HWM (Hersham and Walton Motors), in 1951. [2] . It competed in voiturette racing events, as well as two Formula One World Championship Grand Prix events; the 1951 Swiss Grand Prix, and the 1952 Belgian Grand Prix. [3][4] ^ "HWM 51-Alta".

2020年5月8日 · The team enjoyed great success in Formula 2, and of course, the logical step was to move into Formula 1. However, while the small team’s plucky attitude and grit found a place amongst the big boys in the world of Formula 2, the world of Formula 1 was too far advanced. Despite a brilliant effort, the cars HWM built simply weren’t competitive.

In 1951 HW Motors entered one round of the Formula One World Championship with their HWM-Alta 51, with its 2.0-liter, four-cylinder engine. Against the likes of Alfa Romeo and Scuderia Ferrari, it would have taken an act of providence just for …

2020年7月3日 · As it turned out the HW-Alta – known within the Walton workshop and elsewhere as The Streamliner – only did four races as a works car, and two of them were F1 events. In its maiden outing in the Jersey Road Race it ran reliably until the timing chain broke, but in the Stockholm Grand Prix Heath came fourth, admittedly out of only four ...

2023年9月6日 · From 1953 to 1957, the team was involved in sports car racing both in Britain and on the Continent, sometimes beating its Jaguar and Aston Martin works competitors. The first of the two late cars, 52106 (pictured) took on the registration HWM 1 that had been reassigned by the work from an earlier HWM.

2019年6月17日 · But if you don't know about HWM you really should - and Simon's work tells their remarkable shoe-string story in an attractive, warm and ultimately poignant way. He has unearthed some great photos,...

On the race track the privateer garagistes were mixing it with the Works teams from Jaguar, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Maserati and not without success. XPE 2 was used extensively in 1955 & 1956 and ‘boxed above its weight’ to many victories and podiums. The second car was built for John Heath and registered HWM 1.

2021年3月4日 · This excellent piece of British motorsport history can trace its origins to those charismatic 'Garagiste' at HWM who took on 1950s Grand Prix legends like Alfa Romeo and Ferrari. The history file accompanying the HMW is beyond doubt one of the most complete motorsport stories that Silverstone Auctions have ever had the pleasure to present.

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