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Brooklands Campbell circuit: Fiftieth anniversary
Road and track Fifty years ago, on May 1, 1937, the Campbell Road Circuit opened at Brooklands, allowing road-type racing…
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Page 56
The Roads of the 1920s
Concluding Owen John's 1925 diary, there was his Christmas journey described in the last instalment, over wintry roads, in a…
Page 57
In the Trojan Wars
The small but keen Trojan OC holds the Northern Trojan Rally at the British Commercial Vehicle Museum at Leyland, Lancashire on June…
Page 57
V to C Miscellany, May 1987
The tenth Sandwell Historic Vehicle Parade, the largest in the Midlands, takes place at Dartmouth Park, West Bromwich on May 10.…
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AFN Diamond Jubilee
To celebrate AFN Limited's 60 years of motor trading and the retirement of its popular MD, John Aldington, a very enjoyable…
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Earliest Surviving British Car?
Dr Alan Sutton's Malvernia-Santler, which is now on show at Cardiff's Industrial & Maritime Museum, is claimed to be the…
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V to C Miscellany, May 1987
The Daimler & Lanchester OC, which incorporates the Lanchester LD 10 Register, is making an effort to recruit more members…
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Fragments on forgotten makes, No 74
The Leidart-8 The inter-war Ford V8 engine was such a smooth and inexpensive powerplant that it is no surprise that it…
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Factory visit: Peugeot-Talbot
The Lion in Ryton The car from Sochaux has come a long way in the affections of British buyers since…
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Road impressions: Peugeot 309 SRi
My pleasure After visiting Peugeot at Ryton, I drove away in a jolly representative of the small cars from that factory,…
Page 62
Rosemeyer! A new biography
by Elly Beinhorn Rosemeyer and Chris Nixon. (Transport Bookman Pubhcations Ltd, 8 South Street, Isleworth, Middlesex TW7 7BG Price £29.95p.) A…
Page 62
Capri-the development & competition history of Ford's European GT car
by Jeremy Walton. 311 pp. 91/4" x 63/4" (GT Foults & Co, Sparkford, Yeovil„ Somerset BA22 7JJ. £14.95). It was…
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Maserati 3011 - The story of a racing car
by Denis Jenkinson. 113 pp. 81/2" x 10" Aries Press/Andrew Deutsch, 105-106 Great Russell Street, London WC 1. £19.95, This…
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Walter Wilson: Portrait of an inventor
by A Gordon Wilson. 173 pp. 9" x 51/2". (Gerald Duckworth & Co, The Old Piano Factory, 43 Gloucester Crescent,…
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Shell History of Motor Racing
Video: Volumes I, II, and III . (Duke Marketing, PO Box 46, Douglas, Isle of Man. 70, 53, and 55 minutes.…
Page 64
Veiled and mysterious
Sir, As a schoolboy I spent many holidays at Eastbourne, and I can recollect seeing a veteran car in use in…
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Cooper-Zephyr
Sir, Does any erudite reader of Motor Sport know what happened to the Cooper-Zephyr which Rosemary Seers drove, and with which she…
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Who's hysterical?
Sir, I have just read Matters of Moment (Motor Sport, March 1987). Is it not yourself who is getting hysterical, by…
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Pryce's Royale
Sir, Thank you for your article on the late Tom Pryce. You may be interested to know that the prototype…
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Bolt upright Tazio!
Sir, Presumably Joe Bayley's "Laid Back" letter (Motor Sport, April 1987) was a stir? In the photos, Nuvolari's head is further…
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