Archive Sideslips By "Baladeur" "I am able to present my readers this month with a genuine curiosity of motoring." Thus wrote a contributor to World's Work in December 1903, and I agree… January 1953 Issue By Baladeur
Archive Sideslips By "Baladeur" It is really extraordinary, as I remarked in these columns recently, how late Italy was in getting going as a motor car producer. And almost more extraordinary, I… July 1948 Issue By Baladeur
Archive Sideslips by "Baladeur" A correspondent who is apparently a persistent follower of these sideslips reminds me that I have outstanding a promise to discourse upon Serpollet road steamers. Well, that is… September 1946 Issue By Baladeur
Archive Sideslips By "Baladeur" In an earlier article of this series, I indulged in a day-dream to the effect that, having been born in 1870 (which is actually a little bit before… April 1953 Issue By Baladeur
Archive Sideslips by "Baladeur" "'The Eternal Second.' I wonder in how many races Giradot finished second! He certainly won Paris-Boulogne and the Gordon-Bennett race in 1899, but he finished second in so many more… December 1949 Issue By Baladeur
Archive Sideslips by Baladeur Towards the end of 1912, there appeared in the Autocar a series of articles of more than usual technical interest. Their subject matter, which concerned the relative merits… November 1947 Issue By Baladeur
Archive Sideslips by "Baladeur" Some day, I hope, someone more fortunate than I am, in that he possesses a complete "run" of the Autocar, will compile an anthology of the letters addressed… April 1949 Issue By Baladeur
Archive Sideslips By "Baladeur" About twenty years ago I was rather intimately acquainted with a 1,500-c.c. Ceirano. It was rather a pretty car, with a 4-seater body and well-pronounced shoulder line from… April 1947 Issue By Baladeur
Archive Sideslips by "Baladeur" A reader of Motor Sport who has been so misguided as to peruse my recent effusion about the correspondence in the Autocar in 1923 and 1924 on the… May 1949 Issue By Baladeur
Archive Sideslips by "Baladeur" "At Kingsclere, we turned down the lanes, well-surfaced, flanked by gracious country-houses standing in orderly grounds, and seemingly quite devoid of traffic. . . . We fell to… November 1946 Issue By Baladeur
Archive Sideslips By "Baladeur" The Steyr-Daimler-Puch Company, only surviving maker of passenger cars in Austria, will, within the next few months, start assembling F.I.A.T. cars in their works at Steyr, Upper Austria."… June 1949 Issue By Baladeur
Archive Sideslips by "Baladeur" The cult of the vintage car is, it would seem, of longer standing than some of us are apt to suppose. Not, of course, that before the days… July 1949 Issue By Baladeur