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///@classiccars.marcel_netherlands: 1960 COMMER TS3 ECURIE ECOSSEPictures @timscottDescription @fiskens_cars The most famous racing transporter of them all – built to the order of the Ecurie Ecosse Association for the use of Scotland’s world-beating privateer racing team.Unique in design and execution, this one-off transporter is among the most achingly special surviving artefacts of Ecurie Ecosse, symbolizing that team’s two famous Le Mans victories for Scotland and for Britain.Conceived in 1959, an official of the Ecurie Ecosse Association supporters club named John Stenhouse met with team patron David Murray proposing an entirely custom-built transporter as a means of sortie to continental and other racing engagements.With Murray and head mechanic Wilkie Wilkinson having long envied the sleek transporters of the continental works racing teams, this was a magnificent offer, and endearingly sponsored by the team’s thousands of supporters and select members of Scotland’s business community.Donation of the Commer TS3 chassis was arranged by Alastair Cormack, managing director of Rootes agents James Ross & Sons Motors and President of the Scottish Motor Trade Association. This featured Commer’s three horizontal cylinder 3.2L diesel power unit, with six opposed pistons driving a single crankshaft, and Roots-type supercharger.Coachwork was by Walter Alexander and Company of Falkirk, specialist truck and bus coachbuilders, under its managing director and Ecosse Association member Ronnie Alexander, with other support from the likes of Lucas, Dunlop, and British Aluminium who supplied the alloy panelling.The ingenious design was by Selby Howgate, Walter Alexander’s design manager whwo had an aviation background. Behind the spacious cab with its forward-raked windscreen lay a fitted workshop, and transport for three D-Type sized machines, two up top, one on the bottom deckFull story and more Pictures on fiskens.com