Articles from the archive

From time to time we publish progress reports on "Babs", the disinterred Liberty-engined Thomas Special which Owen Wyn-Owen is restoring, from which it is apparent that very good progress is…

Brian Shawe-Taylor needs absolutely no introduction. He is best remembered as a very successful and worth-watching E.R.A. exponent, first with his B-type, later with the ex-Harrison B/C type. He is…

THE SPORT ABROAD. The Grand Prix of Casablanca. ,ø( )IINT CZAIKOWSKI, driv ing one of the new 2,300 c.c. supercharged Bugatti racing cars with the double overhead camshaft engine, won…

Jim Tiller's much modified Allard J2 set the pace in the 99th Brighton Speed Trials in September. Tiller blasted along Madeira Drive in a time of 10.2sec, reaching 140mph in…

Why, two decades after he quit the sport as champion, is Jackie Stewart returning with his own team? He may, as one Ford executive suggests, be the customer from hell,…

Specials, especially amateur-built ones, form an important part of the overall motor sport scene. This prompted the late Gregor Grant to persuade one of the keenest and most successful specials…

If any of you are waiting for delivery of a new Lotus and it's arrival has been inexplicably delayed, it may be that we are to blame. The day that…

He had just one full season of Motor racing. But what a season it was. Bill Boddy remembers the 'Student Prince' of thirties Motor Sport - A Le mans winner…

Silence of the fans The Italian Grand Prix and the Monza track have always been synonymous with sheer unadulterated speed, regardless of the attentions that have been made over the…

Short Staffed Motor Sport will be a bit understaffed on the road-test front for the next few weeks. Not because we are cutting down on employees or cannot afford the…

by Nigel Roebuck and John Townsend. 160pp. 12" x 8". (MRP, The Pilton Estate, 46 Pitlake, Croydon CRO 3YR. £15.95). When I last reviewed this Formula One annual I said…

Pre-war motor racing will forever be associated with the scent of Castrol-R engine oil, mingled with the fuel fumes of those times. Burnt 'R' is intended, of course, and it…