The Things they Say . . .

“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!