THE TREND OF DESIGN
Once again the time has come to survey, as concisely as possible, the progress that has been made in the design and production of high-performance cars during the past twelve months (TO BE PUBLISHED IN TWO PARTS)
I. SPORTS-CARS
FiRsT and foremost, the distinction between sports and utility cars continues to narrow and not a single newly-introduced sports-car, no
matter how...
Some Notes on a Brooklands Calthorpe
The subject of this discourse was dubbed "The Ghost Car" by the Daily Express, when that newspaper published a photograph of it, I assume on account of its thin, wraith-like outline, because there was otherwise nothing unusual about the car, in the context of the Brooklands racing light-cars of the period, although as you will see from the photograph, this was...
This time with especial reference to "12/50" and "12/60" Alvi.
At the end of the Kaiser war the family was running a 24-h.p. Talbot enclosed-drive laundaulette, a 4-cylinder job of vast proportions. I do not remember much about it, apart from the fact that it was most comfortable and very reliable, and that it had a very loud and raucous Klaxon. This was followed by a 11.9 Harper Bean of 1922...
Sir,
Having recently taken delivery of a Hunter, I was most interested in your article on this model in your April edition.
Comments made are most accurate, including the baulking in 1st gear, but you omitted to mention the vibro-massage obtained when travelling over 65 m.p.h., unless of course this phenomena is restricted to my particular vehicle, in which a 100-mile non-stop journey, including...
The Editor Tries Another Selection of Different Cars
THIS habit of going out, journalistically in as many different motor-cars as possible grows. The first that came up in June was Ronald Barker's Magnificent Napier motor-carriage, a 30/35-h.p. six-cylinder delivered from Acton in November, 1909.
I don't propose to say much here about its technicalities, because I hope to persuade Kent Karslake...
Easidrive
Early in the New Year we were able to sample the Hillman Minx Series IIIA Easidrive saloon, which, if it is of greater interest to wives and girl friends of enthusiasts than to the enthusiasts themselves, represents a significant technico-industrial development. The Smiths automatic transmission functions well, upward gearchanges occurring at around 10 and 25 m.p.h. under light throttle...
UNDER this heading recently we commented on, amongst other fascinating miniatures, the rubber-driven "Penguin" toy cars. Now we have come upon the same maker's smaller clockwork-driven "Minic" replicas of such cars as Rolls-Royce and Daimler sedancas, Daimler sunshine saloon, Bentley, Daimler and Rolls-Royce tourers, Vauxhall tourer and cabriolet and Vanguard, Morris-Oxford, Wolseley "6/80,"...
[Some readers seem to have tired of this series, while others are very emphatic in their requests that it should go on, so this month we are publishing a rather shorter article than usual, by E.J.H. Griffiths, who, like so many other contributors, was a firm supporter of the Vintage S.C.C. before the war. – Ed.]
I learnt to drive on a 1924 16-h.p. Wolseley tourer which we have at home and then I...
AUSTIN A55 Stand 102.
In common with other " B " series engined B.M.C. cars, the A55 engine has improved combustion chamber shapes and a new camshaft to reduce tappet noise. As might be expected, an estate car version has recently been announced which merely has the roof panel lengthened. With the rear seats folded down 51 cu.ft. of space is available. A new type of door lock is fitted which...
We hear
F/O G. L. Weaver still has his 1925 Aston-Martin stored away and hopes some day to give it the attention it deserves, although he has not seen it since he joined the R.A.F. early in 1940. Two pre-1914 cars present themselves for saving – a 1912 15.9-h.p. 4-cylinder Star tourer, with dual ignition and beaded-edge tyres, in London, and a 1914 12-h.p. Newton-Bennett in "showroom" order, with...