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Sports Cars in Winter Ignoring the fatherly warnings of the motoring bodies and the railway companies that the North of England was unsafe for motor-cars, last month I pursued a…

A Schneider Trophy Aftermath To understand what follows it is necessary to consider these seaplane races as they led up to the ultimate outcome. International contests of considerable importance and…

CHRISTOPHER HILTON, AUTHOR of numerous racing-driver biographies and Murray Walker books, has now added Ken Tkrrell, Portrait of a Motor Racing Giant (Haynes, £19.99, ISBN 1-85960-885-X). With a lively anecdotal…

Le Mans The Jaguar Years. Brooklands Books, £12.95. Brooklands Books has broadened its range. As well as its incredibly complete run of one-make reprints, the new Road Race series assembles…

FISA waves stick at Le Mans ON Thursday, December 7, FISA dropped its bombshell on the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, in refusing to renew the track licence for Le Mans…

The VSCC of Australia's Newsletter for June had some recollections of the famous Rob Roy speed hillclimb, by Earl Davey-Milne who was taken there when he was 14 by his…

After three editions at the spectacular Portimao circuit, the Algarve Historic Festival will switch venues in October to run further north at Estoril after financial issues between the venue and…

THOSE who admire the works of John Begelman will know that reference to cars occurs quite frequently in his poems. For example, in "John Betjeman's Collected Poems" (John Murray, 1958)…

The Peerless G.T. four-seater coupé, to which reference was made in Motor Sport last October, is to go into production next month, the makers inform us. Slight changes have been…

A Pageant of Speed Silverstone, Northamptonshire, May 14th. The annual day of racing on the Silverstone circuit, organised by the B.R.D.C., started off at 10.30 a.m, on a bright and…

Sir, Until I read the paragraph in the September Rumblings, about the Chevrolet V8 in the Can-Am car and its connection with the 1929/30 Rileys, it had never occurred to…

From the paperback "Mary Pickford", a Star book, published by W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd. in 1975: In the spring of 1925 a plot to kidnap Mary Pickford was…