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Between this year's Australian and Malaysian grands prix, Mrs C and I used up a free week with our first visit to New Zealand. On our travels around the wonderful…

This time it is some old photographs, accompanied by notes, sent to me by Flt.-L.t. G. O'Donovan, son of the late D. R. O'Donovan, the Norton "wizard" of Brooklands fame, for my personal…

Much travel reduced my reading last month but I cannot help feeling that the 20/Ghost Club will not altogether approve of the circumstances in which a Rolls-Royce shooting-brake is found…

Sir, I apologise for asking you once again to allow me space in your columns, but I must reply to the Town Clerk of Richmond, as his letter is nothing…

The Bugatti Owners' Club holds its first Prescott Speed Hill-Climb of 1948 on May 9th. Here is a short survey of what has gone before... The position at Prescott In…

For the New Year comes a "Corgi" model of the Chevrolet Impala State Patrol car, complete with windows, seats, steering wheel, road springs insignia and radio aerial. This should delight…

Orthodox race on revised circuit Monte Carlo, June 3rd When everyone arrived in Monte Carlo they were completely taken aback by the fact that the revised circuit (described in Motor…

A REMARKABLE OUTBOARD MOTOR FEAT. THE inhabitants of the Shetland Isles, off the north coast of Scotland, are a stolid, hard working people. They are unused to the sudden, sensational…

Sir, We read with great interest your article regarding the Rochester Duesenberg. First, I would like to say that Harrah's Automobile Collection also has a Rochester with a Rochester Duesenberg…

End of entente? Alain Prost will always have good reason to remember the Portuguese Grand Prix. He started it from pole position and he turned it into his 33rd career…

GO FASTER STRIKES Larus FLAD GONE ALMOST FOUR YEARS WITHOUT A WIN. NOT SINCE the 1978 Dutch GP had Cohn Chapman's famous black cap been flung exultantly skyward. And so…

Sir, I liked your new series on technical innovations very much. However you are entering a field where it is very hard to separate original ideas from the recycled. This…