The highlight of the VSCC's Hawthorn Memorial Trophy Meeting at Silverstone was the race-long battle for the Boulogne Trophy between Tim Llewellyn's tyre-smoking 3/8-litre Bentley (now running with an unpainted…

The show Another S.M.M.T. London Motor Exhibition opens at Earls Court on October 21st. Allis is an-annual happening which signals the close of the British motoring sport Season, the advent…

Sir, I was very interested in J. B. Perrett's reference to Ackroyd Stuart as during the mid1940s I lived in Chipstable, a small and isolated village in West Somerset which…

Sir, I was amused to learn that Mr. Hay considered his Fiat 125 "reliable" after only 20,000 miles. I have covered 80,000 miles in 25 months in my 2-litre Triumph…

Yet another enjoyable "clubmen's day" occupied Silverstone on July 9th when the "500" Club realised a long-standing ambition and offered real racing to its enthusiastic members. Two three-lap races, a…

Sir, In his excellent review of the Lancia Thema 3.28, MLC comments on its Ferrari 328 engine and invites us to name another production engine which "runs into the orange…

Sir, The debate on the morality of the motor car in an apparently energy diminishing world is one which gets more attention daily. Now, while many of us would accept,…

by David F Ogilvey The Miles family's first attempt at producing an enelosed cabin monoplane, the M3 Falcon, appeared in 1935 as a development of the successful Hawk open two-seater. Using the ubiquitous…

Guy Griffiths has informed us that the Griffiths Formula, formed to encourage the preservation and racing of sports and sports/racing cars of the 1947 to 1960 period, has been wound…

Peter Arundell ‘King of Formula Junior’ Peter Arundell has died aged 75. His FJ exploits in 1961-62 won him promotion to the Lotus Formula 1 team. He won the famous…

The annual Race of Champions has been moved from Wembley – its home for the past two years – to Beijing’s ‘Bird’s Nest’ stadium (left), which hosted the 2008 Olympics.…

Stock-car racing, a la Pugh, continues at New Cross Stadium, which has been converted from a dirt to a tarmac surface for the purpose. Although it may seem that no…