Disability failed to stop Archie

Archie Scott-Brown was a racing car driver with a difference ... he only had one hand.

The 28-year-old Paisley man reached the top of his game in the mid-1950s.

And, in April 1955, he almost swept the boards on the Scottish scene.

Archie’s family ran a well-known garage and engineering business in the town, although his success as a driver led to him upping sticks and moving south.

He was the official representative driver for Four Square cigarettes and was based in East Anglia.

Before that, he was a master at a boys’ preparatory school in Crieff.

He later went to St Andrew’s University, where he made his name as a cricketer of some note.

But he soon exploded onto the motor racing scene, making an instant impact and coining in some lucrative deals.

At a minor race meeting in England, he was approached by a director of a Cambridge engineering firm, who offered to design and build him a special racing car.

The result was the Lister-Bristol, in which he won his opening two races.

One of his greatest successes was winning the British Empire Trophy – an event he had been barred from entering just a year earlier because of his disability.