Articles tagged James Lees-Milne

Page 48 of June 1976 archive issue thumbnail

Page 48, June 1976

Cars in books

Having referred recently to a country side book in which the author admitted to using an early Austin 7 for her travels, I was amused when, after reading only as far as the first page of James Lees-Milne's "Ancestral Voices" (Chatto & Windus, 1975), I came upon mention of another aged Austin. The book describes how the author, invalided out of the war and working for the National Trust, went...

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Page 17, August 2009

Nigel Roebuck

Reflections – Back from the brink of a breakaway series – Prost’s self-sacrifice for the good of McLaren When Max Mosley came to Suzuka in 1991, he was newly installed as the president of FISA, then the motor sport arm of the FIA. In short order, of course, he was to do away with FISA, and become president of the FIA proper, but in those early days his focus was on the sport alone. In Japan he...