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Matters of moment, January 1972
A sports-car revival? We have been hearing recently of how apparently staid, middle-aged people have been buying fabulously expensive German…
January 1972
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1972 international calendar
The 1972 season will see the beginning of two new eras of motor racing, in sports cars and in Formula…
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Formula 2 review: end of an era
A series of four races held in Brazil and Argentina during November brought to an end the 1,600-c.c. Formula Two…
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Rally review: RAC International Rally of Great Britain, January 1972
Many more people watched the 1971 RAC Rally of Great Britain than the total number of spectators at every single…
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Springbok series
Last month we published a short report on the Kyalami 9 Hours and since then the Springbok Series has continued…
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Around and about: comment on the racing and club scene, January 1972
Aintree lives—just The passing of the Aintree circuit near Liverpool from the International calendar seems to have evoked remarkably little…
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"Motor Racing Year—1972 Edition"
127 pp. 9 3/16 in. x 7 in. (MRP ltd., 277-279, Grays Inn Road, London, WC1. £1.50). Many of the…
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"When the Flag Drops"
By Jack Brabham, 240 pp. 8 3/8 in. x 5 3/8 in. (William Kimber & Co. Ltd., 22a Queen Anne's…
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"Motoring Classics"
G. T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, have issued a number of reprints of their early motoring books, under…
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"The Chequered Year"
By Ted Simon. 280 pp. 8 3/4 in. x 5 1/2 in. (Cassell & Co. Ltd., 35, Red Lion Square,…
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"Ford"
By Booton Herndon. 408 pp. 9 in. x 5 3/4 in. (Cassell & Co. Ltd., 35 Red Lion Square, London,…
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Cars in books, January 1972
From a chapter in "Bears In The Caviar", by Charles Thayer, of the American Embassy in Moscow (Michael Joseph, 1952),…
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The "Model Engineer" exhibition
Those of our readers who like models should note that the 41st Model Engineer Exhibition takes place at Seymour Hall,…
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Congratulations, Meccano!
We are delighted to learn that the financial set-backs of Lines Bros. will not apparently stop the production of the…
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The racing memories of J. C. Byrom
Recalled in a recent interview with the Editor Having reviewed Henry Longhurst's entertaining book last month we obtained from him…
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Veteran-Edwardian-vintage, January 1972
A section devoted to old-car matters VSCC Driving Tests, Silverstone (December 4th) Quite why the Vintage SCC chooses to inflict…
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V-E-V Odds & Ends, January 1972
A 1905 45-h.p. Spyker tourer which was found some years ago on an Australian farm and was duly restored has…
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A "Double-Twelve" surmise
Recent correspondence has brought to light some new facts about the Rolls-Royce aero-engined car constructed by the late Col. G.…
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V-E-V miscellany, January 1972, January 1972
Amongst some interesting items in a booklet issued by Bishops Move, the well-known furniture removal people, to celebrate their 116th…
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Lt.-Cmdr. Glen Kidston's air crashes—
Sir, It seems that aviation history as well as motoring history can become clouded by the passage of time. The…
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