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One category of racing that rarely merits much more than the passing mention in the pages of motoring magazines yet provides, in its current state of the art, technically interesting…

Sir 1 have been much enjoying your articles on "Motoring as it was". My motoring started in the mid 1920s and my parents' 1923 Standard 14 had no headlamp dipping…

A day with steam It was a happy gesture on the part of James & Crockerell Ltd contractors, of Durrington in Wiltshire, to stage a gathering of steam locomotives, traction engines and rollers…

N.B.—Opinions expressed are those of our correspondents and MOTOR SPORT does not necessarily associate itself with them—Ed. Quartic! Sir, I was surprised to read in Motor Sport's brief review of…

Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow - Bentley T-series, by Malcolm Bobbitt. Veloce, £25. Whether buying a cheap Silver Shadow for a limited spell of top class motoring until it disappears in a…

The Seventh Mille Miglia VICTORY FOR TAZIO NUVOLARI, WITH AN ALFA ROMEO. MAGNIFICENT DEBUT OF M.G. MAGNETTES IN WINNING 1,100 c.c. CLASS FROM NEW MASERATIS. THAT the Italians are more…

AWARDS FOR THE M.C.C. EXETER TRIAL M.G. MAGNETTES WIN TEAM PRIZE. SIXTEEN TRIPLE AWARDS. The twenty-second Exeter trial ended the final event of 1936-37 for the M.C.C. series of a…

A Japanese invader The World's major Western motor manufacturers, for a number of reasons we will not go into here, have swung away from sports cars almost entirely over the…

With deep regret we record the death of F/Lt. John Seth-Smith, a test pilot to Fairey Aviation. He was flying a Fairey "Firefly" fighter over London when the aircraft commenced…

WHILE 60,000 racing enthusiasts headed towards Silverstone the Assistant Editor turned his Sprite in the opposite direction on to the A30. The ultimate destination was the Montagu Motor Museum, where…

THE HOME THE " MOTH " -sk ROUND THE WORKS OF THE DE HAVILLAND CO. TO really appreciate a visit to the factory of the De Havilland Aircraft CO., Ltd.,…

I cannot let the month of May 1965 go by without looking back to the same month in 1955, a mere ten years ago, for it was on the first day…