Articles from the archive

"The Schneider Trophy Races" by Ralph Barker. 272 pp. 5¼ n 5½'. ?Airhle Publishing Ltd., 7 St. John's Hill, Shrewsbury. Salop, £8.951 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the…

Early MG by P L Jennings. 240pp. 93/4" x 7". (PL Jennings, Cwmbrain, Lanbister, Powys LD1 6UE. £37.50 including postage). Published privately and now in its second edition, this book…

It would be rather appropriate if the sports-racing 'Coventry Cats', Jaguars in other words, were the first to compete in World Championship racing with catalytic converters in the exhaust systems,…

"I started out at Brabham as a mechanic and it was Gordon Murray who fired my interest in the design side, with cars like the BT42 and BT44. In those…

An evening spent in the company of David Piper and Richard Attwood reminded us just how far we have come in Just when Formula 1 was returning from the Abu…

RUMBLINGS The path of the motoring journalist, and even more so that of the motoring historian, is strewn with pitfalls. For instance, the PITFALLS Aston-Martin of the Bamford and Martin…

The Editor's annual discourse on various aspects of the motoring scene Another Motor Show has come round so it behoves us to consider what sort of motor car it is that we require…

Sir, The eighth anniversary of the death of Ayrton Senna is upon us. Since that crash, many changes have been made to Formula One car design to improve safety. Some…

Meccano, Ltd. have brought out one of their best Dinky Toy miniatures to date, in the form of an open-bodied Cunningham C-5R sports/racing two-seater. Rather larger than previous Dinkys, this…

RICHARD NOBLE's avowed intent to capture the World Land Speed Record came one step nearer to fruition late in September with the capture of five British records on the two-mile…

Sir, With reference to "The Remarkable Mystery of the Elusive Dry-Cell" in your January issue. As the owner of a 1967 Triumph 2000, this type of clock seems to be…

When we published the January Editorial to do with Rolls-Royce, we thought afterwards that possibly we had been singularly foolish in not realising that maybe the Crewe manufacturer isn't any…