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British Car Factories From 1896, by Paul Collins & Michael Stratton. Veloce Publishing, £40.00. Here is a new kind of reference book. It is an ambitious subject, which the authors…

REPAIRERS QCORED CYLINDERS. Scores in cylinder bores can be filled .3 in by Barimar Metallurgical (Patented) Process, to fit existing pistons and returned in two days under money-back guarantee, at…

Sir, In your May issue you reported in glowing terms on the National Benzole Maps just issued. Emboldened by your statement that "These maps . . . show . .…

Anyone who likes to drool over photographs of elegant cars will appreciate this offering as a Christmas gift. Its plain, modest encyclopaediaesque cover not only conceals a concours of elegant…

Sir, Now that the year has drawn to an end I present to you, my friend Jenks, and Motor Sport my best wishes for another 1977 motoring year (despite some…

RAC Brighton Run BEAUTIFUL weather greeted the 330 starters at the Hyde Park start, where GP star Derek Warwick and his wife Rhonda (below) set off in a 1900 single-cylinder…

Formula One - a novel by Bob Judd. 330pp. 9½" x 6". (Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1 Tavistock Chambers, Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2SG. £12.95). Considering the jet-setting scenario of…

The Rising Sun in Dreamworld If you need an example of an anachronism, it has to be the Monaco Grand Prix. Walking round the circuit the day before practice began,…

One of those queer-looking Bond Bug tricycles has completed a three-Capitals-in-a-day journey, by leaving Cardiff City Hall (a building as beautiful as the Bug is ugly) and returning in iust…

Exploitation is a dirty word!  "Man's rich with little, were his judgement true; Nature is frugal, and her wants are few; These few wants answer'd, bring sincere delights; But fools…

COUPE DU MONDE The permanentBelgian Grand Prix ein.ttit. at Francorehanips on August Du It ‘ms. the Scene 14 the arriVal Of 1111151 people Wis. Were fort 1111111e eitolle.11 survive the…

Ross Brawn has admitted that the current structure of the Formula 1 team that now carries his name is only a “medium-term” solution, implying that it will need extra investment…