The Things they Say . . .

March 18, 2016

“If the Owen Organisation is identified with anything at all it is British Racing Motors, better known by its initials B.R.M. With this company Sir Alfred almost single-handed put British racing back on the International map in the 1950s.”—Robin Sanders writing in The Sunday Times and getting his motor-racing history astonishingly confused.

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“It also goes round corners faster than any car of the Edwardian era.”-Motoring News, in a road-test of some ghastly fibreglass-bodied Ford Popular fake Speedy Roadster, which, incidentally, although a 1969 production, apparently gets away with illegal back wings. Just tell this to Cecil Clutton when he has the 1908 Itala well wound up!