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Uncovering the Family Silver
In 1948 British photographer George Monkhouse revisited the Mercedes-Benz plant at Stuttgart-Unterturkheim. It was his first trip to the place…
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Overhyped? Yet Villeneuve remained a breath of fresh air
This is bound to upset some of the faithful, but I’m afraid I never quite ‘got’ the Gilles Villeneuve ‘thing’.…
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F1's mid-flight entertainment
Aviation and motor sport have been inextricably linked since virtually the beginning. When Camille Jenatzy won the Gordon Bennett Trophy…
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The car with the back-seat driver
The creators of the miniscule Bedelia wanted to reduce the machine’s parking footprint – so they put the seats in…
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The greatest consulting detective and the Grand Prix Austins
Sherlock Holmes remains the greatest fictional detective of them all, quoted frequently, even in a Times leader, in spite of…
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Auspicious debut for the ‘Speed Model’ Riley Nine
Years ago I was given an impressive ride in a schoolmaster’s 1½-litre side-valve sports two-seater Riley Redwing, made in Coventry…
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When WB did a racing lap of Wolverhampton
Some recent correspondence has reminded me of how we ran the famous 1924 Grand Prix Sunbeam on the public road.…
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Three wheels on The Track
A letter from the grandson of E H Ware reminds me of Ware’s Brooklands racing with Morgan three-wheelers, and the accident he…
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