V -E-V odds & ends.

The Citroen CC magazine Citroenian for last November contained a most interesting illustrated article on the Citroen-Kegresse-Hinstin caterpillar-track vehicles, which made the first motor-car crossing of the Sahara desert, etc. An Austin 7 engine has been unearthed from a cemetery in Singapore. Avon News for December carried an article on Sandy Skinner’s vintage wooden-bodied Austin 7. The Alvis OC Bulletin for the same month had an article on the “Great FWD Single-Seater Mystery” and the current Trojan OC Magazine depicts Redman’s 1924 Trojan Utility tourer which he restored around 1956 and in which he has covered some 36,000 miles in Southern England.

The Mercedes illustrated on page 32 last month, although rated at 60 h.p., was, in fact, one of the 1908 GP cars.