Remembering all the race circuits which were mooted in this country, at places as distant as Brighton, Dunstable, Birmingham, etc., but which never materialised, one takes stories of further ventures…

Flying the standard high As you read this, Motor Sport will be celebrating its sixty-fifth year of publication, an event that very few other magazines can boast about. Published in…

Apex – The Inside Story Of the Hillman Imp By David and Peter Henshaw. 148pp. 9½ x 6”. (Bookmarque Publishing, Minster Lovell, Oxford. £12.95). Once upon a time the late…

Carrying the title of "The Three-Wheeler", Brian Watts' soft-cover history of the Morgan Three-Wheeler written for the Morgan Three-Wheeler Club has belatedly appeared. It runs to 67 pages and is…

Amongst the many annuals devoted to reporting, largely with excellent illustrations, the previous season's motor racing, "Race Report" by Eddie Cuba deserves especial mention. It claims to be the only…

Continuing their series of detailed books about touring in Scotland, G. T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., of 50a, Bell Street, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, have published a volume by Ross Finlay on…

"Rolls On the Rocks" is a book which Robert Grey wrote in under three weeks at the behest of Compton Press, of Compton Chamberlayne, Salisbury, Wilts., who sell it for…

A 1914 Sunbeam on the Road Sir, After reading, in the June issue, your fascinating account of Mr. Lake's 1922 GP Sunbeam, the reference to the 1914 3.3-litre machine tempts…

Mystery solved after fifty years It is not often that a mystery remains unsolved for 50 years, yet one such mystery directly involves Motor Sport. Back in 1938 we published…

Prescott Speed Hill-Climb 1938-1988 by Peter Hull. 139pp. 9¼” x 6½” (Bugatti Owners Club, Prescott Hill, Gotherington, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL52 4RD. £7.50). In 1976 the Midland AC celebrated the seventieth…

Schizophrenia? Sir, Has dear old Motor Sport gone schizophrenic? I refer to the editorial “faster and faster” (Motor Sport, July 1988). Initially you support the sale of super-fast high-performance road-cars.…

Although very few 12/50 Alvis cars come on the market these days, the new PRO of the enthusiastic Alvis OC reports that one was sent for scrap recently, the owner…