GEOFFREY BATTERSBY'S D.B. SPECIAL In these days, when hybrids for use on the road are less popular than was once the case, Harold Biggs's description of this car of 20…

Marathon to run in reverse The route for the 2014 Sydney-London Marathon Rally has been confirmed, with a daunting schedule of over 1700 miles of special stages in a total…

• * * * ROSE POINTS SIR, Keith Howard's Technofile article on Rose joints credits German aircraft engineers for invention of this device. We can assume the Messerschmitt was Gilles…

Early Motor Cycling and the Result. By F. W. BARNES, M.I.A.E. Mr. F. W. Barnes, who is well-known to all Brooklands habituees, tells some of his early experiences in the…

THE 10,000 KILOMETRES TRIAL. IT is a matter of considerable disappointment that the great 10,000 Kilometre Trial organised by the Automobile Club of Germany should be practically ignored by the…

Turbo Topics TURBOCHARGIN( on the increase, no doubt about that. An interesting letter came in from a reader in Seattle the other day, in which he wondered whether vacuum-servo braking…

Sir, May I congratulate J. Heywood Statham on his article ? I found it such a change to read of someone claiming 74 m.p.h. after tuning instead of 96 m.p.h.…

ConEnentall Notez and Newz By AUSLANDER The Latest Monoposto Having emerged from the ordeal of the Mille Miglia with full marks for reliability, the new type 308 Alfa-Romeo engine will…

Pre-1940 Triumph Owners Club librarian Rex Martin would like to trace the competition history of his 1934 Monte Carlo Sports (registered KV 9614), and another reader hopes to find out…

Bristol M. C. & L.C.C. Castle Combe March Race Meeting Some most exeiting racing took plat. in spite of heavy showers and a very strong wind. Leslie Hawthorne's healthy Riley…

Sir, Surely you are mistaken in stating that Peugeot were the pioneers of cross-flow heads in 1955 (MS September p.964). What about the excellent head of the Aprilia designed in…

W.A.S.A. The Westward Ho Trial attracted eighteen starters. So well do the ladies perform nowadays that Station Hill was not even observed, and Beggar's Roost and Doverhay accounted for only…