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WORLD SALES Sir, Recalling the advent of the Ford New Anglia, introduced by the childish and unprecedented method of biased comparison with the Volkswagen, I feel that the time has…

Just as a change from motor-racing, and because crowded roads may induce people to combine motoring with flying, we went to the grass aerodrome at Elstree on May 25th, for…

No story on Colin Chapman could omit the word 'innovation'. But his remarkable talent lay not so much in inventing devices as solving problems, and, more crucially, in identifying that…

WHEN the Escort range was announced, many of the engine specialists offered to fit the 1600 GT Cortina unit as a replacement for the 70 (gross) b.h.p. 1300 GT installation.…

Sadly but inevitably Land Rover has finally called time on the Defender, which will be put out to pasture at the end of 2015, the company either unable or unwilling…

A fierce G.T. race Monza, June 28th Every year in Italy for some time now a grand National Lottery is held all over the country, rather like the Irish Sweep…

Sir, I'd like to add some memories of Henri Toivonen following your article last month. At the time of his F3 try-out in 1982, I was involved with the Rothmans-backed…

The Douglas Light Car Douglas motorcycles were known and esteemed the world over in pre-war days. The famous belt-drive flat-twins were ridden by numerous Dispatch Riders during the First World…

Mr AR 'Peter' Warrilow, whose father was on the staff of The Electrician before the First World War, in which capacity he went as observer on the DumfriesLondon Run undertaken…

Motor racing and research go hand in hand. Looking right back to the earliest years and you will find examples of manufacturers using motorsport to develop ideas. Perhaps one of…

Mid-Surrey A.C. and V.S.C.C. Grand Cup Trial This famous trial, in its austerity guise, was confined to hills around Pirbright, after starting from a puzzled village in that area. Michael…

The Sunbeam S.T.D. Register's Annual Rally and Driving tests at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, will take place on October 9th. Entry forms from the Hon. Registrar, Carmel, Wood Lane. Fleet, Hants.