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Matters of moment, April 1963
Horse, or horseless, age? Motor Sport's suggestion that to combat the increasing persecution of motorists a powerful protection society is…
Horse, or horseless, age? Motor Sport's suggestion that to combat the increasing persecution of motorists a powerful protection society is…
Owing to the disinclination of the snow to melt, the early season speed events have been sadly interrupted and, in…
Described to the Editor in a recent interview. It was a great pleasure to drive down to Sir Francis Samuelson's…
The Motor Industry has its own "Who's Who." This comprehensive volume, published by Temple Press Books, Bowling Green Lane, London,…
The B.A.R.C. announces that it has relinquished its rule that applied at certain of its meetings that a driver who…
The pleasant West Country Speed Hill-Climb venue at Wiscombe Park, near Colyton, Devon, will have meetings on April 7th, May…
The Michelin Tyre Co. invented detachable cycle tyres in 1890 and made its first tyre for cars in 1895. Up…
We often receive frantic 'phone calls from people who have purchased sports cars, only to find that they are being…
The 1963 race season at Snetterton opened on March 17th on a dull, chilly day, which slowly degenerated into rain.…
A 93 m.p.h. British small sports car with all-round independent suspension, disc front brakes and wind-up glass windows, Taxi-beating turning…
A sprightly small sports car now with larger engine and disc front brakes The M.G. Midget has been one of…
Engine: 4 cylinders, 64.6 x 83.7 mm. (1,098 c.c.). Pushrod-operated overhead valves. 8.9 to 1 compression-ratio. 55 b.h.p. (net) at…
Engine: Four-cylinder, 69.3 x 76 mm. (1,147 c.c.). Pushrod-operated overhead valves. 9.0-to-1 compression-ratio. 63 (net) b.h.p. at 5,750 r.p.m. Gear…
"International Auto-Parade, 1963." 6th Edition. 308 pp. 11.875. in. x 8.375 in. (Arthur Barker, 20, New Bond Street, London, W.1.…
At the end of this season Formula Junior comes to an end, to be replaced by Formula Two and Formula…
Since the war I have tested a number of Vauxhall cars. Early in 1949 the bulbous and generally rather curious-looking…
The 1963 Inter-Register Contests between the S.T.D., 12/50 Alvis, Fiat, Bullnose Morris, Humber and model-T Ford Registers are provisionally as…
Sir, With reference to "Book Reviews" in the February issue, I am pleased to be able to tell you that…
Sir, Mention of the smoke-making propensities of the 1914 T.T. Minerva cars, in your review of "The Racing Car Pocketbook,"…
Sir, Further to your remarks concerning the vintage Bentley, TU 5987, starring in the film "The Fast Lady," this car…
Yamaha’s display at Losail, two Sundays running, was about as convincing as it gets: two victories achieved by two different riders, both fighting their way through the pack in the…
Tony Dron towered above the cohort of mid-sixties aspiring young motoring journalists both physically but also with his skill at the wheel of a racing car and with the typewriter.…
Maverick Viñales will switch to Aprilia from Yamaha for next season
This week in motor sport, from the database June 22 // June 23 // June 24 // June 25 // June 26 // June 27 // June 28 June 22 1930 Woolf Barnato and Glen Kidston led a Bentley 1-2 in the…