THE GRAND PRIX DE LA MARNE
IT was rather a pity, perhaps, that the Grand Prix de la Marne, run over a road circuit in the neighbourhood of Reims, was held on the second day of the Belgian Touring Grand Prix, Sunday 5th July, as the clashing of the two events may have somewhat reduced the field of each. However, the Marne race attracted a satisfactory number of entries, although it was definitely...
THE COMMINGES GRAND PRIX VICTORY FOR LEBEGUE (DARRACQ) AFTER GREAT DUEL WITH WIMILLE (BUGATTI) AMD SOMMER (DARRACQ)
AFEW years ago the Comminges Grand Prix used to be quite an important event in France, being first of all a real Grand Prix and later a
race for sports-cars. Then, possibly owing to the fact that the place is not far from the Franco-Spanish frontier, on the other side of which the...
The Seven's Beginnings
As this is by way of being something of a special Austin Seven issue, it is worth while looking back on the of the Seven as a racing as a car. The very first racing Austin Seven appeared almost as soon as the standard models — in 1928. Capt. Arthur Waite had a simple 2-seater racing body fitted to what was virtually a standard chassis, even to the absence of shock-absorbers...
We Hear
Arthur Fogg has forsaken his Scott "Flying Squirrel" and half-finished racing Scott for the ex-Lang, ex-Butler, unblown "Ulster" Austin Seven. Lt. E. C. Emmett, R.N., has acquired a 1913 G.W.K. as companion to his "4/4" Morgan, and craves also a 1923 G.W.K., which he knows to exist in London, and a Trojan. And just to prove that there is no end to the veterans, Patrick Green has unearthed...