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Matters of the Moment
Those Jaguar Records Although they were established rather more than a month ago, those records by a standard 3 1/2-litre…
July 1949
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Used to be a Long Journey
It's a big hill; steep, curving. No chance to take a run at it. Lorries block you to a crawl.…
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Rumblings, July 1949
Still More Racing Last month we commented on the large number of races which British enthusiasts can attend this year.…
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Preserving a Youthful Appearance
Apart from the manufacture of Plexeal resin-bonded gaskets, the Haddenham Engineering Co., Ltd., of Haddenham, Bucks (Tel.: 218) are introducing…
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The Castrol Company's Jubilee
There is a story told that during the desert campaign of the recent war a motor racing enthusiast with the…
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Vintage Veerings
We will start with a story that has nothing whatsoever to do with motor cars, not even old ones. It…
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Reports of Recent Events, July 1949
Grand Prix De Bruxelles This Formula II (not "B" as some would have it) race was a battle between the…
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The Paddle Wheel
The paddle-wheel, precursor of the screw propeller, was perhaps seen in its most attractive form in driving the Mississippi stern-wheelers.…
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Sideslips
by "Baladeur" The cult of the vintage car is, it would seem, of longer standing than some of us are…
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A Sensational Shelsley!
Joe Fry Breaks Raymond Mays' Long-standing Record by 0.02 sec., with the 1,096-c.c. Freikaiserwagen, in 37.35 sec. Stirling Moss Sets…
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Up and Down
The basic price of the Standard Vanguard saloon, on which a road test report appeared in Motor Sport last month,…
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Something for Nothing
In connection with the Castrol company's Jubilee, referred to elsewhere, they have issued a very attractive free illustrated booklet of…
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The July Prescott Hill-Climb
The next Prescott meeting, the eleventh open event, will be held by the Bugatti O.C. on July 17th, starting at…
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Sydney Allard Breaks the Prescott Course Record (45.05 sec.) and Sports Car Records With His Allards
Six Class Records Fall at Bugatti O.C. Club Meeting Prescott really is a pleasant place and never more so than…
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Le Mans Matters
The foregoing report was flown back in an Airspeed "Consul" chartered from Air Enterprises, Ltd., via Air Liaison. The arrival…
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The Bugatti O.C. at Silverstone
R. C. Symondson Wins 48-Mile Final in His 575 Bugatti
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Italian Victory in 1949 Le Mans 24-Hour Race
Before the war Le Mans was a household word in British motor-racing circles, as well it might be, with British…
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Motor Sport Pictorial Report
Shelsley Walsh, Prescott, B.O.C. Meeting Silverstone
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Vintage and Near Vintage Alfa-Romeos
by F. W. Stiles, late Managing Director of Alfa-Romeo British Sales, Ltd. Part II — The Single O.H.C. 1 1/2-litre…
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THE STORY OF BROOKLANDS
THE STORY OF BROOKLANDS So great has been the demand for Volume 1 of W. Boddy's book that it is…
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