Model T owner Neil Tuckett, left, and John Muir Trust chairman John Hutchison at the wheel of the car on the summit

Volunteer mountaineers recreated history on Britain’s highest mountain when they carried a Model T Ford to the summit.

The car was taken to the top of Ben Nevis in pieces by 60 people and reassembled to mark the centenary of a similar car being driven to the top of the 1,344m (4,409ft) peak.

The original plan was to push the veteran car up the tourist track, or airlift the vehicle in by helicopter, but the John Muir Trust vetoed the idea on environmental grounds. The trust owns most of the summit of the mountain.

The Model T was reassembled, minus its engine, on the summit plateau yesterday in conditions including high winds, rain and sleet.

The car’s owner Neil Tuckett of Buckinghamshire put the car back together next to the ruined observatory, to commemorate the first ascent in May 1911 of a Model T driven by Henry Alexander of Edinburgh.

Wednesday’s ascent formed part of the week-long Ben Nevis Centenary Tour organised by the Model T Ford Register of Great Britain.