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It was in 1958, at Lavenham, that I attended an event expressly for steam cars. It was a very small gathering of a 1904 Turner-Meisse, a Doble and a home-built…

Sir, Congratulations on keeping your excellent journal "alive" in such difficult times. I read your note about the B.N.C. in January's Motor Sport, and I have just read in a…

Goodwood Easter Monday An Immense Effort. - Peter Whitehead taking Lavant Corner in his 1936 B-type E.R.A. on the great drive that earned him second place to Parnell in the…

OUTBOARD motor boats are entirely different from other racing outfits like cars or motor cycles, because they have to be more or less bought in parts, much fitting and assembling…

Christian Philippsen Since its inaugural edition in 1953, Automobile Year has offered a useful oversight on everything with four wheels. Although it is regarded by some as being too general,…

Vanishing act It is fortunate that these notes purport to be but fragments of information, for this month's subject remains swathed in mystery. The Reynard was revealed to the motoring…

Sir, In his review of Scalextric by Roger Gillham (November issue), Bill Boddy wonders if Scalextric ever produced banked track. Indeed it did; as a child in the 1970s I had…

Sir, On several occasions I have contemplated writing to you about a forgotton make of car. However, someone has beaten me to the post, as it were, and they sent…

WITH the re-entry of German cars into International competition, as at the recent Grand Prix Suisse and before then at Monza and Erlen, it is interesting to look at the…

Sir, I have been prompted to write by Jaguar's new series of advertisements concerning the XJ6. As I expect everyone knows these tell of the thorough inspection the car goes…

Two more of those welcome Rolls-Royce historical studies put out by the R-R Heritage Trust and the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation are to hand, for prices which make all…

As motor sport closed for press the FIA and F1 teams had yet to decide whether Pirelli or Michelin would win the tyre contract for 2011 and beyond. As the…