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Two Contrasting Cars An experience which I enjoyed recently was trying that compact luxury-car, the BMW 528 in its latest form. The car which Raymond Playfoot produced for me was…

p>Sir, I agree with Mr. Robert I. Whyte that the Wolseley Register is a little presumptuous in claiming the Wolseley as Britain's First Car. When I was preparing the text…

Morgan Plus 4 It is odds-on that when the first Motor Show of the twenty-first century opens, the Morgan stand will look little different from today. Flowing wings, projecting headlamps…

Sir, What an extraordinary thing that in all the sixty one cars owned over the years by Gerald Crozier, there is not a single Alvis! It is difficult to understand…

Club News WE HEAR The ex-works " Rubber-Duck " Austin Seven single-seater that went ottt to New Zealand now has a Ford engine installed. Cat folk are rightly intolerant of…

750 Racer, by Peter Herbert. Haynes/PSL, £17.99. This is a book that describes how you might make and race a lowcost sports/racing car. The author has worked in collaboration with…

Sir, My father, Alan Yates, shares a glider with Geoffrey Stephenson, they both fly regularly at Dunstable. Geoffrey was the first person to soar across the Channel as opposed to…

Castellotti wins for Osca Imola Sept 30th. Postponed from the beginning of June, the Imola race was eventually held at the end of September and limited to sports cars between 1,300 and 1,500…

Before the start of the sixth Cholmondeley Pageant of Power, Robbie Kerr had never seen the 1.2-mile course, had never driven a Radical and had never competed in a speed…

A 'retro' interview this month. Recently I came across a tape, recorded in November 1981 with Frank Williams, and on a whim slotted it into the machine and began to…

4th International Rally of Veteran Car Clubs (May 10th/11th) This rally, organised jointly by the V.C.C. and V.S.C.C., was another excellent gathering of historic vehicles sponsored by National Benzole. The…

" .R.M.-AhIBASSADOR FOR BRITAI N " (Daily Express, 2s. 6d.). This booklet could have been a splendid bit of propaganda for motor-racing in general and the B.R.M. in particular, and…