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No Compulsion Sir, I write as one of your readers on the subject of compulsory wearing of seat belts in cars. I understand there is to be a Free Vote…

THE RITISH EMPIRE ROPI-IY THE BRITISH EMPIRE TROPHY AT BROOKLAN DS SAT. APR IL.30,1932 SUPPLETVIENTARY regulations are now out for the British Empire Trophy Race. This should be a great…

Sir, Manufacturers have always introduced "gimmicks" to help promote sales of their vehicles—it used to be heaters, cigar lighters, reversing lights, etc., all of which are accepted in today's cars…

RACING AT CASTLE COMBE 1 is invariably pleasant to be at a Bristol M.C. & L.C.C. fixture, and the last race meeting of 1951 at the 1.84-mile Castle Combe circuit…

A Marque is Bourne Initially a private undertaking, ERA went on to become the most successful inter-war British maker of racing cars On June 23, 1934 at Brooklands much interest…

The Leidart-8 The inter-war Ford V8 engine was such a smooth and inexpensive powerplant that it is no surprise that it was the basis of several sports cars made by small-output…

Marchal Distributors Ltd., Brook Lane North, Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex (Ealing 2672 or 3671), announce the new Marchal asymmetrical lamps, claimed to give the advantages of both the pre-war…

Motor Sport's Founding Editor Rare breed Marendaz en masse In a pre-war breaker's yard I saw a derelict American engine on which were the letters 'MS'. It took me a…

From "Master of Lancut—The Memoirs of Count Alfred Potocki" (W. H. Allen, 1959), which tells of the remarkable estate of Lancut in Poland, which fell during the Second World War…

David Rothauser – DVD A labour of love, celebrating a time when drivers approached their motor racing with a strong sense of fair play and few embodied this more than Collins. This…

Sir, In 1931 I did the usual thing by buying my first motor-cycle, a Norton, which did 99.5 m.p.h. on a wet road. I rode the Norton for 15 months…

NO RETURNS Several letters have been received from readers complaining of their inability to procure " Motor Sport." Newsagents will not procure copies if they have not received a definite…