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Obituary
Amherst Villiers, that remarkable character who was educated at Oundle and made many important contributions to automotive and aeronautical engineering,…
March 1992
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Rolls-Royce
The Rolls-Royce EC not only has every right to be proud of its expanding headquarters at the Hunt House, Paulpersbury,…
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Jameson Special - 1
Sir, I read with great interest your article about the Jameson Special, which was built by my late father Joe.…
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Motoring My Way (Revised Edition)
by Stanley Sedgwick. BT Batsford, £23.99. I enjoyed this book very much when it was published in 1976. It was…
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Grand Prix
by Trevor Griffiths. Bloomsbury Publishing, £16.99. Pedants of the world unite. Although motor racing reference books don't have a long…
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Monaco Maestro, by Alan Fearnley.
Motor racing art used to be a small, and specialised, field. Nowadays, there are enough easels in regular use to…
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Rolls-Royce and Bentley
by Klaus-Josef Robfeldt. Haynes Publishing, £75.00. This is a deluxe offering of a much-published subject, this large, sleeve-protected book covering…
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Advertising British Cars of the '50s
by Heon Stevenson. GT Foulis, £12.99. It seems you can get books published on any subject these days. This contains…
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Aston Martin – The Post-War Competition Cars
by Anthony Pritchard. Aston Publications, £21.95. Roy Salvadori writes the foreword to Anthony Pritchard's latest exercise. From the DB1 all…
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Rolls-Royce and the Rateau Patents
by Harry Pearson. Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, £2.50. This is a much more humble R-R offering, which forms number one in…
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1991 British Motorsport Year book
Virgin Video, £10.99. Seldom has life been so good for motor racing enthusiasts. First, seasonal F1 reviews trickled onto the…
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Decade of Havoc
Duke Marketing, £14.99. . . . And here's another hour of gloating at others' misfortunes. The Havoc tapes were the…
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Autocross '60s Style
PP Video, £10.99. Autocross used to be big business. Remember the Player's No6 Championship, John Bevan's Naveb and all that?…
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The Story of the Mk 1 Escort
Sports Seen, £10.99. Forget the drab title. While there may be more cachet to The Lamborghini Legend or Maranello: The…
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Deathrace 2000
Braveworld Video, £10.99. Not even the most cynical producer of accident videos could come up with a title quite this…
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Motor Racing '50s Style
PP Video, £10.99. Where on earth do they exhume all of these? Lindsay Porter's organisation has put together two more…
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What is it?
Sir, Could it be that we now see the ultimate "marketing men's car" in the new Rover? From its front,…
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Chaparral queries
Sir, Thank you for the interesting interview with Jim Hall in January's MOTOR SPORT. However, I feel I should make…
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An ERA era
Sir, The recent correspondence about R11B, Peter Bell, the Queensferry sprint and the like has prompted me to pen some…
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Vorsprung . . .
Sir, Recently I had occasion to return to Spain in my BMW motor-car and accompanied by my godson. We took…
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