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"The Book of The Motor Museum" by Brian Jewell. 112 pp 5½ in x 8 in. Costello, 43, High Street, Tunbridge Wells, TN! 1XL. £7.95). This important little landscape-shaped book…

GORDON KIRBY - THE US SCENE THE THRIVING CITY OF AUSTIN IN TEXAS'S southern 'Hill Country' Tavo Hellmund's dream of the Circuit of the Americas is fast taking shape. Hellmund…

Sir, I owned a TR3 for two years and then bought my present 1958 TR3A some four years ago, since when it has slowly been refurbished to its present excellent…

ALFA-ROMEO and E.R.A. SHARE DIEPPE HONOURS Dreyfus and Fairfield win their races. Many British visitors at a highly successful meeting ITHE Circuit de Dieppe has been ad mired for a…

Having a few days to spare I paid a visit to the Monza Autodrome and during the course of a week there was almost continuous activity. The Monza Autodrome is a…

Fangio -- The Champion! His magnificent drive in the German G.P. has set the seal to Fangio's right to the title of World Champion. He has won the Championship of…

Sir. The suggestion that the streamlining on the LNER locomotive "Mallard" owes something to the 1936 Bugatti 57S is surely nonsense. The first Gresley's A4 streamlined Pacifics was in service…

Lewis Hamilton’s victory in the Canadian Grand Prix came as a huge relief not just to the 2008 World Champion, but to the whole McLaren organisation. Following Jenson Button’s superb…

A MATTER OF OPINION Sir, Regarding the subject of "real motor ears," I feel that you have not quite touched the mark in the humble opinion of a few friends…

THE R.A.C. EASTBOURNE RALLY Entries Exceed Three Hundred ENTRIES for the 4th Annual R.A.C. Rally closed Wednesday, 6th February, with a total of 308 compared with 400 last year. The…

edited by Alan Henry. 272pp. 121/2 x 93/8, (Hazleton Publishing, 3 Richmond Hill, Richmond, Surrey TW10 6RE £19.95). Now in its 38th year of publication, this hardy annual goes from…

Riley Motor Club's 24-Hour Trial. FOR their 24-hour trial in Wales on July 3rd and 4th--one of the most ambitious trials ever attempted by a club whose membership is limited…