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Matters Of Moment, February 1957
The Great Petrol Muddle No excuse is needed for referring again to petrol rationing, because it is the subject foremost…
The Great Petrol Muddle No excuse is needed for referring again to petrol rationing, because it is the subject foremost…
Those readers who collect car miniatures to amuse their children (or themselves!) will be interested in the very small Wiking…
The last time that I wrote an article under the above title was in Motor Sport for February 1955, and at…
A Grand Prix team that aspires to success and greatness must nowadays embark on a programme of events that continues…
Considerable reductions in vehicle fares on cross-Channel air ferry services have recently been announced. Some of these reductions amount to…
"Golden Wings," by Alison King. 191 pp. 8¼ in. by 5½ in. (C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., Tower House, Southampton Street, Strand, London,…
Along with raised prices for petrol, oil and tyres, etc., another "Suez crisis" is an increase in the fees payable…
On January 4th the North London Enthusiasts' Car Club held their annual dinner and dance at the Hendon Hall Hotel.…
We feel that no better obituary to Ken Wharton can be offered than that which attained the Editorial column of…
Another "grab," this time by the Government, is embodied in the present price of the Highway Code, study of which…
This time by J. C. Morland, who describes motoring enthusiasm as it breaks out in Kenya. My first car was…
The cover of a recent issue of the Nascar Newsletter—official organ of South America's National Association of Stock Car Auto…
Alfred Owen, the B.R.M. sponsor, is Chairman of Port Hamble Ltd., Hamble, Southampton, a firm which has introduced the Pacemaker 19 outboard…
In spite of limited petrol the Kentish Border C.C. held their Annual Sporting Trial on December 23rd near Bexley. Twenty-eight…
On the eve of the petrol famine Motor Sport was loaned for test a bright yellow Mk. XI Lotus two-seater. The…
Engine: Four cylinders, 63.5 by 92.5 mm. (1,172 c.c.). Side valves. 8.0-to-1 compression-ratio. Approximately 40 b.h.p. at 5,700 r.p.m. Safe sustained…
The racing/sports car is very much a thinly disguised Grand Prix car and bears little resemblance to production sports cars…
The problem of taking air into a Grand Prix engine is fairly straightforward, most people using Weber double-choke carburetters, giving…
Records Now that Monza's banked autodrome has been added to the Montlhery Track near Paris, record attacks should flourish, although…
A section devoted to old-car matters, both current and contemporary Fifty Years of a Nobody's Motoring Back in the dim…
Baku swaps its title from European to host the first Azerbaijan Grand Prix Baku became the sixth different venue to hold the European Grand Prix since it first became a…
I didn’t attend last weekend’s Dutch TT at Assen. Instead I took a busman’s holiday a few hours south at Spa-Francorchamps. It was the weekend of the Bikers’ Classic, the…
Mercedes has conducted a private test ahead of F1's return in July, with pit crew and drivers in masks
For reasons that will become apparent, this was the most challenging month of my life. We all know motor sport blends sound and spectacle, but it can also be a…