Sir, In accusing you of rewriting history, Alan Baker (Letters, February 2000) is himself guilty of being very selective with the truth. Yes, Jochen Rindt was lucky at Clermont-Ferrand, but…

A reader having given me the tip-off, I spent an August Sunday driving completely across London from Hampshire and out into Essex, bound for Billericay, to see Mr. R. C.…

[By means of which the Continental Correspondent, while he is motoring abroad keeps in touch with the Editor.] Dear W. B., No matter where you motor in Europe you come…

SLEEVE VALVES Sir, While appreciating the amplitude of Mr. I. G. Macleod's reply, I feel that he has ranged over a somewhat wider field than was contained in the scope…

V to C Out of the Past JACK Warne, at the age of 85, remembers how he met Leslie Bouts, the driver of Sunbeam and Leyland Eight cars at Brooklands,…

When Lighming struck Sir, I enjoyed reading the British Grand Prix edition of Motor Sport (August), and was pleased you mentioned the Red Arrows and other air displays that kept…

Multiple Insurance Sir, I am a regular reader of MOTOR SPORT, and a classic car collector, and often have in my possession as many as six or seven cars, all…

An MG-C Club . . . For— Sir, I would be grateful of the opportunity to reply to Messrs. Willmer & Slatter and their opposition to a separate MG-C Club.…

Following on his magnificent win at Stelvio, when he beat the great Nuvolari, Mario Tadini scored another line victory last month when he carried off the first Circuit of Lucca,…

ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS SOURCES For Cable Brakes. THE advance made in the past few years in the design of brakes has greatly simplified their adjustment. Nevertheless, it is…

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OUR FRONT COVER. THE very fine action photograph which appears on the cover of this issue depicts Sir Henry itirkin and his supercharged 41-litre Bentley, with which he recently covered…