My Time At Trojan Works, London. By Ken Hyndman

[khyndart in CA]

October 1973. Trojan Racing workshop.
Mick ... who was Keith Holland's mechanic, assembling the front on the new T 102. Ron Tauranac's years of Formula One experience was used into designing this F 5000 car to ease the mechanic's tasks as much as possible. The linkages etc were designed to accept the Alan Smith Chevy 5 litre V8 with carburetters but it could easily be adapted to fuel injection. The oil coolers were mounted low to allow clean air to flow over the rear spoiler. 13 x 11 in wheels at the front and 13 x 15 or 17 in wheels at the rear. A Hewland DG 300 5-speed gearbox. As the T 101 car had done well, Tauranac was confident the T 102 would do even better especially under braking and short circuit handling. The next season was eagerly awaited.
The original plan was to build 6 of these cars, all for sale at 7 thousand pounds each plus VAT as a rolling chassis less engine.
I thought it was a pretty good looking car and did not realize at the time that it would be the only Trojan F5000 T 102 that was going to be built ! (These are rare photos indeed ! )



(Ken Hyndman photo)


The scene inside the Trojan Racing shop at the height of production on the McLaren-Trojan M8 FPs in 1971. The T 102 was assembled in the middle front area close to the offices of Ron & Patrick.



(Trojan file photo )