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SALUTE THE JUPITER! "Motor Sport" Undertakes a Fast Run to the West Country in Jowett's Long-Awaited Flat-Four, Tubular-Chassis, II-Litre Sports Model THE JOWETT JUPITER has been a long time a-coming…

Some facts about an almost forgotten marque, compiled by Peter Clark from information supplied by Sydney Neal, who used to be with the English concessionaires and is now the Aerolite…

TOO FANTASTIC TIIE announcement by the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain, through its chairman, G. J. Allday, of Weybridge Automobiles, Ltd., of a Victory Run to Berlin, to happen…

Sir, I noticed your enquiry about the Lucas "Startix" device for automatically restarting a stalled engine. The car in which I learned to drive was fitted with one of these.…

Sir, As a confirmed Jaguar fan(atic), I frequently feel Motor Sport does not devote enough space to these fine cars and fails to recognise their superiority over virtually every other…

Reflections – Why Singapore saga is no surprise in today’s ‘sport’ – No one had a way with words quite like Frank… A busy time it’s been in Formula 1,…

Technofile Racing drivers are employed to drive, not communicate. Thus a race engineer's lot was not always a happy one - until, that is, stack developed a device that could…

"Road Accidents—Prevent or Punish?", by J. J. Leeming. 233 pp. 8 3/5 in. x 5 3/5 in. (Cassell and Co. Ltd., 35, Red Lion Square, London, W.C.1. 36S.) It is…

DO YOU RECALL THEM? MEMORIES OF INTERESTING RACING-CARS WHICH HAVE COMPETED AT POST-WAR B.A.R.C. MEETINGS [The Articles on " Good old Days at Broohlands " which we published last January…

The equipment is designed to give the fullest pleasure and interest, and includes twin carburettors, hot spot manifold, "knock-on" racing wheels with self-locking hubs, Brooklands instruments, revolution counter and sports…

Snetterton on Sunday, June 14th, was the venue of the annual Eastern Counties Motor Club's "100" Trophy meeting. Highlight in a five-event programme was the 100-mile (37-lap) saloon car race, counting for…

[Continuing from the November issue, the account by Charles Metchim, now resident in Nairobi, of how he competed at Le Mans in 1933 and 1934 with his Austin Seven] It was extraordinarily difficult…