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Matters of Moment, April 1969
• It's All Happening The sport of competitive motoring is again in full swing. Those who compete and those who…
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Race of Champions
—A climatic catastrophe Brands Hatch, March 16th This year the annual season-opener run by the B.R.S.C.C. broke new ground in…
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The San Remo Rally
Wheras the Swedish Rally is characterised by snow, the San Remo Rally ought to have been held in the March…
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Rally Review, April 1969
The Swedish Rally There was once a popular theory that high-powered cars, such as Porsches, were not at all suitable…
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Letter from Europe
[By means of which the Continental Correspondent, while he is motoring abroad, keeps in touch with the Editor.] Dear W.…
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American Comment
There will be no steam-powered cars at Indianapolis this year. The last of three such projects fall by the wayside…
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Some Italian Cars
Never having led a very regulated or orderly life I tend to let things happen as they will and adjust…
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Veteran-Edwardian-Vintage, April 1969
A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters The V.S.C.C. Pomeroy Memorial Trophy Competition, Silverstone (March 1st)
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V.E.V. Miscellany, April 1969
John Howell tells us that the V16 Maserati is going together again. The single-seater Austin 7 which W. D. Castello…
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Fragments on Forgotten Makes No. 41: The TB
The TB three-wheelers were built by Thompson Bros. (Bilston) Ltd., a company of boiler makers and steel fabricators formed in…
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Re-Union With A Minerva
It came about like this. Graham Rankin, who lives just round the corner from me, last year acquired an impressive…
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Forthcoming Fixtures for Vintage and Pre-War Vehicles
We have been asked to announce the following:— Auto 66 Vintage/Veteran Fixtures (April 13th and June 29th). These will be…
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Memories of the Match-Race
Any fresh information about Rolls-Royce history is getting very hard to come by, and although new things about Brooklands come…
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Historic Racing
The French magazine, l'Anthologie Automobile, lists a race at Montlhéry on April 19/20th for historic cars in the Coupe de…
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Silverstone Aagain On April 19th
Welcome as marking the end of winter, the full return of spring (it may be snowing, of course) the first…
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V.-E.-V. Odds and Ends
The 70th anniversary of the first car being driven into the yard of the House of Commons is to be…
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A Ricardo Engine
Having, on another page, reviewed Sir Harry Ricardo's very enjoyable autobiography, recently published, it was interesting to come upon an…
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Vintage Postbag, April 1969
Exaggeration Sir, I could not agree more strongly with your sentiments on high-powered advertising of vintage and "specialist" cars: in…
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Plug on TV
No, not that sort of plug, or even that one. But we were astonished when, immediately after the last-but-one episode…
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1969 South African Grand Prix race report: Stewart streaks ahead
For the last seven years the South African Grand Prix has been held just before or just after New Year’s…
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