David Brodie of Brodie Brittan Racing has sent us some old photographs found in the Hitchen garage which his partner, Ken Brittan, took over in 1932. They are very interesting,…

The Brooklands Society held its 24th Annual Reunion at Brooklands on June 30th, the theme being the 1931 racing season. The enormous numbers of spectators' cars soon outflowed the sizeable…

John Lea John Lea, who had a lifetime's racing associations, has died, aged 88. At 15 he rode sidecar for a Norton racing motorcyclist, and Sammy Davis of The Autocar…

A reader recommended "Another Self", by James Lee-Milne (Hamish Hamilton, 1970), which has some motoring references in it. There is, for instance, a description of the author being driven to…

There is a generally mistaken impression that the so-called Emancipation Run, which took place from London to Brighton, on November 14, 1896, was organised not only to try to show…

ALTHOUGH most motorists who are in receipt of supplementary fuel rations have recently received an appreciable cut in those rations, the outlook is by no means a gloomy one. As…

Regulations and entry forms are now available for the Yeovil CC's Bristol-Bournemouth Vintage Vehicle Run on June 11. Last year this run for pre-1940 vehicles had nearly 300 entries. The…

That great marathon, the LEJOG, is I scheduled to happen again on December 2/5. Details from John Brown, The Town House, Leigh, Worcester WR6 5LA. Tel: 01886 833505. My continuing…

Book Review "Motor Racing Year-1970 Edition" 120 pp. 9 1/2 in. x 7 in. (Motor Racing Publications Ltd, 62, Doughty Street, London, WC1. 25s.) We have already reviewed such surveys…

A recent TV appeal for donations by the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has a 60 year-old motor racing connection, worth remembering by those who have forgotten it or…

The Eldridge Fiat, originally called the Fiat "Mephistopheles," now owned by CE Naylor, has a remarkable history. In 1908, shortly after the opening of Brooklands, a match race was arranged between…

The VSCC has a happy knack of finding old motor cars fun, without going to extremes. Indeed, this is especially the case with its Light Car Section (which takes in…