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Sir, In this year of the Ghost, I thought I'd send you a photograph as my little contribution. This is inspired by your splendid article in the March Motor Sport.…

Never before has the British Motor Industry been more deserving of publicity. By its contribution to the war effort it most certainly ensured our present Freedom, and the Peace which…

Guest column Motorcycle and F1 World Champion Surtees runs Britain's A1 GP team. He tells Motor Sport about his hopes for a new British hero and how champions don't just…

Wood Green & District (cont.). Cowley), and Miss J. E. H. Weekes, whose A.C. had carefully balanced wire wheels. The brake test at the top. of Kop Hill was extremely…

The Radio Times, introducing a motor-racing Commentary "Spanner in the Works," broadcast during July by the B.B.C., stated; "Since the war motor-racing, once a Cinderella among the country's sporting pursuits,…

Luxury for a few in a package meant for millions The borrowed SAAB 99 EMS slithered through the first slippery assaults of the British weather admirably, but the sight of…

The Trojan Owners Club has dug up that famous 1924 advertisement "Can You Afford To Walk?", which detailed the cost of walking 200 miles compared to that of driving the…

The official results of the prolifically supported Kenco RAC Veteran Car Run show 359 starters out of 427 entries of pre-1905 cars. The 49 unfortunates who retired were: T Moore…

LETTERS from READERS TUNING THE .11N1011. Sir, I own a 1931 Singer Junior, and whilst I have no wish to provoke further correspOndence On the relative, merits of this little…

Sir, I was interested in Alan Freke's mention of the Formula 2 Fry-Climax in November, as I well remember this car being driven by Mike Parkes. I seem to recall…

In the first of a new series, Simon Arron finds proof that it’s possible to impress the wider world from the nether reaches of the F1 grid Ferrarisé. It’s not…

In this year's Inter-register contest, an idea suggested by Motor Sport 'centuries ago' so that one-make clubs could compete against one another in various tests, only two points divide the…