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Instant recall Sir, Just a couple of lines, that's all it took. Just a couple of lines in your 'This Month' feature in the March edition — This Month in…

Sir I read with considerable interest your article on my father the late Joseph L Jameson in your December edition of MOTOR SPORT, and entitiled 'Mystery Special'. I cannot add…

The roads of the 1920s We left Owen John contemplating a winter tour in an Armstrong Siddeley, a tour he undertook over Christmas 1926 and New Year. He seems to…

Gina Campbell CONGRATULATIONS to Gina Campbell, of an indomitable family, who has broken the so-called Woman's Water Speed Record, happily escaping injury in an accident after the record run. But…

Mike Doodson’s article on Great Train Robber Roy James was pretty near the mark and, as he says, Roy hated being called the ‘Weasel’. He was in fact not arrested…

By "Carrozzino" While simmering by the fire with the Editor recently he expressed the opinion that he really knew little about the present-day motor-cycle and should he ever feel the…

Sir, With reference to the paragraph in your November issue about my Company's Benz Dogcart, I would like to correct your statement as I have been its driver in Brighton…

THOSE COMPLAINTS ABOUT NOISE. STUDENTS of the Daily Press may have noticed that there have been numerous complaints about the existence of speed boats on the Thames. There is no…

Sir, It was a pleasure to read an article on the Amilcar Sixes, it being some 30 years since the last article on them in Motor Sport. There is no…

Although the products of the motor industry include much of what is due largely to the innovative skills and development techniques of rally drivers and engineers, they might have included…

  Jim Russell FF1600, Snetterton, 1971  It was a whim. Racing was just something that I'd seen in magazines when I was bumming around New York with Dr Frank Faulkner.…

If one adheres unimaginatively to the ruling of the seasons, that one during which all organised sporting flying takes place is now over. There will be no more races until…