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Cars in Japan
Sir, Can any of your readers recognise the make of this car? My late father photographed it about 35 years…
December 1961
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Data and parts wanted
A reader in Greenwich who has discovered a 1922/3 1,098-c.c. D.F.P. chassis seeks help in what sort of body it…
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Recent discoveries
Recent discoveries include a Willys-Knight tourer languishing in a yard near Baldock, a 1922 A.B.C. 2-seater which has been stored…
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Alfa Romeo racing and production cars—1910-1940
By Sir Anthony Stamer. (Continued from the November issue) To revert to production models, the year 1927 saw the birth…
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Rumblings, December 1961
Guild Day at Goodwood Rather belatedly we present the Editor's impressions of the 14 cars he drove round Goodwood at…
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Motor books for Christmas
"The Silver Lady," by Neville Minchin. Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. 180o pp. 8 7/8 in.…
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Cars in books, December 1961
There is reference in "Daughters of Divinity," by Verily Anderson (Hart-Davis, 1960), to a model-T Ford in which her mother…
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Miniatures news, December 1961
Apart from books, what better gifts for Xmas than motor-car miniatures? Meccano have a fine version of the latest Austin…
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The Vauxhall VX Four-Ninety
One of the most interesting entirely new cars at Earls Court last October was the VX 4/90 version of the…
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A sympathetic magistrate
Mr. A. A. Pereira, a Clerkenwell magistrate, refused costs in a recent parking-meter case, saying: "As far as I am…
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Volkswagen shares
According to the Evening News, a firm of London stockbrokers is advising clients to sell B.M.C. shares and switch to…
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Corrections
A few errors crept past Editor and Reader last month. The former is aware that there is no such thing…
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Brabham wants I.R.S. on British cars
Jack Brabham, writing in the Sunday Pictorial, agrees with Motor Sport that independent rear suspension is overdue on British cars.…
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Cars I have owned
By Brian Carson Looking backwards across the span of six and thirty years, I can see the ghosts of many…
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Wood-rimmed wheels
If you subscribe to the view that the only place for wood is in trees, then read no further, for…
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A change of venue?
Sir, Now that Aintree and Silverstone are scrapping for the British Grand Prix, why don't we take a decisive step…
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The White Riley
Sir, Maybe I could add a few comments about my White M.P.H. Riley in reply to Mr. Rolfe last month.…
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Pomeroy gone?
Sir, Your comment in correspondence in your November issue is indeed curious. I would have thought that how people speak…
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The Triumph 1200
Sir, You were good enough to publish my comments on my Mini in your July issue, and your road-test of…
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H'elfs and 'Ornets
Sir, The "Hornets' Nest" has been stirred up. Find above my impression of the 1962 "Silver Cloud." (With thicker sound…
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