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Brief Specification. Engine : 16 h.p. cyt., 65.5 x 101.6 mm. (2,054 c.c.), Tax £16. Side Calves, 7 bearing crankshaft ; aluminium pistons ; duralumin Con-rods ; aluminium high-compression head…

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A Catalogue of Disasters IT CAME as no surprise that this year's Monte Carlo Rally was completely snow free and that the dry stages contained only occasional ice patches. After…

The New Laws. THOSE of us who have taken the trouble tonook at our new driving licences, will have been forcibly reminded by the heading "Road Traffic Act 1930" that…

Jim Hall, creator of the Chaparral cars, will be the honorary chairman for the eighth Annual Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, held over the weekend of March 7-9 in Florida. "We…

Printed by TeP & Whiten and J Mead, Ltd., 21, City Road, London, E.C.1, and Published by the Teesdale Publishing Co., Ltd., 21, City Road, London, E.C.1. Agents for Australasia…

Someone who has spent his working life in the design and operation of exotic race cars, it surprises some that I have low interest in the cars I drive on…

Watson tried A1GP Formula 1 star-turned-TV pundit John Watson drove Team Ireland's A1GP car around Zandvoort on September 29. It was the first time the five-time grand prix winner had…

Sir, I very much enjoyed Alan Henry's article on that most enduring of racing cars (Lotus 72:The Most Sumessful GP Car Ever, May) but would take issue with the claim…

ON SOME THINGS WE SHALL MISS DEFINITFLY, we shall miss going to Earl's Court. The Motor Show, whether at Olympia, or Olympia and White City, or, as it now is,…

Opinions ... Sir, Your leader article on the prosperity of the British Motor Industry was of interest, but lukewarm—or alkaline—in tone. One reason for the ascendancy of Germany—as quoted by…

"Cape Cold to Cape Hot," by Richard Pape. 256 pp. 9 in by 53/4 in. (Oldhams Press Ltd., 96 Long Acre, London, WC2. 18s.) This is a book by a journalist rather than…