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We Hear F/Lt. Peter Jones hopes to install a Diesel engine in a private-car chassis, and F/O. McConnell has been using something very different - a 250-c.c. Villiers-engined 2-seater Rytacraft,…

If is a wonderful word and hindsight a marvellous gift. What might Christopher Marlowe have written IF he had not thrown away his life in a drunken brawl? What might…

SPORTS CARS FOR 1937 ALVIS The Alvis range of fast cars represents British engineering in its highest form, all the chassis having high-efficiency push-rod o.h.v. six-cylinder engines, allsilent synchro-mesh gearboxes…

CASTING BACK No. I.—BROOKLANDS-1925 SEASON WITH no current races to report, the Motoring Press has taken to delving into the past and, in following suit, we have decided first of…

Sir, I should like to offer my congratulations on your excellent recent articles on Ronnie Peterson and Gunnar Nilsson, as well as those on Hesketh and Beatrice. I had the…

Sir, In my 40 years of reading Motor Sport magazine I do not recall reading any article or feature four times back to back, then re-reading it continuously in the…

Con6nenta._ N.otes and News Formula There has been a great deal of nodding of heads and whispering in ears lately about the Grand Prix formula, which nevertheless remains much as…

The Birth and Development of the Peugeot 204 is a film produced for grown men and of enthralling interest. Clubs should not miss the opportunity of seeing the meticulous and…

Mr R. H. Beauchamp, AMIME, concludes his account of life at T & T's of Brooklands under the great Reid Railton One sunny Saturday afternoon in the early summer of…

Sir, Your correspondent, Mr. Blight, has made a sweeping statement which I must challenge. Without any reservation he says that Sunbeam made the only serious attempt before Jaguar to design…

There were numerous detail changes in the paddock scene at Zolder compared to Jarama two weeks before, notably among airbox designs for the engines, though many teams were still not…

Built by Maserati, paid for by an ice-cream maker and driven by Stirling Moss, the Eldorado Special should have been Europe's answer to the US invasion in the 1958 Race…