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Lotus 49 - The story of a legen
By Michael Diner ISBN 1 85227 841 2 Published by Virgin Books, £30.00 Setting out to write a definitive history…
February 2000
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Les Annees Fangio 1950-55
By Gerard Crombac ISBN 2 7268 8336 2 Published by ETAI, £39.99 First the good news: this is a fine…
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Five Days of a Grand Prix
By John Nicholson and Adam Parsons ISBN 333 74700S Published by Macmillan, £20.00 I felt a bit sad after reading…
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A French Kiss With Death
By Michael Keyser and Jonathan Williams ISBN 8376 0234 3 Published by Bendy, £39.99 What a simply terrible title for…
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Drawing And Painting Racing Cars
By Michael Turner ISBN I 85960 627X Published by Haynes, £17.99 Although there has been a huge boom in motorsport…
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A Sleeve-valve success
It is a remarkable factor in Automotive engineering that the piston and the poppet valve have survived virtually unchallenged into…
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Obituary
Douglas Burnell ('Bunny') Tubbs, who died last November aged 86, grew up with acute physical disabilities but this scarcely hampered…
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Obituary
The death, at the age of 82, of Edward Pailthorp Eves leaves the world of motoring writers bereft of one…
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Miscellany, February 2000
Last month a reader suggested that in the 'Phi-Phi' Etancelin article I had deprived this driver of his final placings.…
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An all-too brief spell...
A picture in December issue of a 1908 GP Mercedes had its owner Jack Hartshome Cooper at the wheel, which…
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A respectable union
At an age when I hate change if came as a shock to find that letters from Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart…
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Counting the crowds
In an idle moment last year I found myself watching the build-up to the World Cup Wales v Argentina rugby…
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Early days at Cowley
Those who favour Morris cars have an excellent choice of books about the make's history. The latest is Making Cars…
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Making our voice heard
The rights of owners of the older motor vehicles were underlined last October when the Vice-President of FIVA and the…
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From Boxkite to Jet
The value offered by the books of the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust (PO Box 31, Derby DE24 8BJ) is very commendable.…
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