Sir, In your July issue's Technofile, the Safety Devices company and Tom Walkinshaw are credited with pioneering the approach of improving chassis rigidity by using a roll-cage in 1980. They…

The Racing Conan Doyles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle should be forever praised for having written what were intended as simple magazine stories which, having created the greatest fictional detective (sorry,…

Sir, In view of the recent interest in elderly commercial vehicles, I thought this photograph of a 1925 Austin Heavy Twelve Ice Cream Van might be of interest to readers.…

Sir, In answer to Sheridan Thynne's (January 2000) query asking for any more examples of two different circuit configurations being used during one event. While no other Grand Prix has…

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The Jaguar XJ 3.4 Excellent value for money £4,998. In round figures that is the price charged for the economy-model Jaguar saloon, with manual or automatic transmission. All things considered,…

WHAT A CAR! Sir, I am enclosing a photograph which I think may prove of interest to your readers. It is a picture of my 2900 B Corto Alfa-Romeo, eight-cylinders,…

THAT 1954 FORMULA Sir, I am writing to tell you about a meeting the constructors of racing ears had with Earl Howe and Colonel Barnes at the R.A.C. on Wednesday,…

THE BRIGHTON ROAD-CIRCUIT SCHEME AFTER, an interval of eight years, the scheme to construct a road-racing circuit on the South Downs, near Brighton, has been revived. It will be remembered…

A new sound has been born. It hails not from Liverpool nor from any other tin-pan-alley source, for this sound has a distinctly motoring note and comes from Crypton, the…

www.charade.fr/eng/accueil New to the major events calendar is a late July meeting at the Charade circuit in central France. Better known as Clermont-Ferrand, the original, and longer, circuit was occasionally…

Brands Hatch, in its initial 22-year lifespan as a Grand Prix venue, played host to a number of thrilling Grands Prix. The first British GP at Brands, in 1964, went…