1957 Lotus-Climax eleven Le Mans series I Chassis no. Mk1/267 Engine no. Fwa/6964 400-7. Colin Chapman and his energetic young design team at the Lotus Engineering Company, based behind father Stan Chapman's public house, the Railway Hotel in Hornsey, north London, introduced the beautiful Lotus type XI - or Lotus eleven - competition sports car in 1956, replacing the earlier marks IX and X