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Crayford's 3-Litre Escort Driving to work the other day I spotted, in the opposite lane, a rather hairy-looking Ford Escort with a bulge on the bonnet and the word Eliminator…

Gear-boxes and other matters. NE hundred thousand spectators are said to have witnessed the French Grand Prix this year, and there was a strong contingent of English racing drivers and…

When Morland & Co. decided to build a new public-house in Preston Road, Abingdon-on-Thames, they instituted a ballot amongst the townspeople, which showed that the name preferred for the new…

247 pp., 5 1/2 in. by 8 1/2 in. (Bentley Drivers Club Ltd., " Madges," Long Crendon, near Aylesbury, Bucks. 30s.) This "Bentley Bible," compiled with monastic devotion by the…

THIRTY YEA 1" S OF MOTORS IN the last year of the nineteenth century, one Wilbur Gunn set up a small machine shop on the banks of the Thames, and…

The Complete Car Modeller 2, by Gerald Wingrove (revised edition). Haynes / Foulis, £14.99. Gerald Wingrove is a genius builder of incredibly detailed, very accurate scale-model cars. He has now…

THE. COMPFR " SWIFT " THE Comper Aircraft Co., Ltd., of Hooton Park, Cheshire, is a newcomer to the industry, but to those who remember the early light aeroplane trials…

A 'You were there' special That prime non-championship Formula 1 race, the Oulton Park Gold Cup, is the venue for Neil Dockray's striking driver portraits You won't nowadays find many…

As Nick Pellett has rightly remarked, it is a minor miracle that all three of the 1914 Tourist Trophy Sunbeams have survived to appear together as at last year's Isle…

Peter Hull It is with the greatest sorrow that we report death of Peter Hull. He was 82. He was so very much a part of the VSCC, his loud,…

We arrived at Silverstone early on a misty spring morning - practice for the Daily Express-GKN Trophy race. Half a dozen cars had already arrived, but, apart from the activities…

Remarkable Australian Murray Rainey built a remarkable Cooper 500 in the late Fifties. Following his reunion with it after 42 years, his daughter Joy reminisces... I was just a kid…