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This year's Sunbeam Motor-Cycle Club's Veteran and Vintage Rally will take place on June 17th. It differs from previous years in being run solely on a distance-cum-age of car-cum-age of driver…

Spitfire frolics above the Goodwood estate are nothing new, but one of this year’s pre-Revival flypasts had an extra touch of poignancy Writing this, still in the soggy and arthritic…

The very sad news is that TASO Mathieson has died after a long bout of ill-health, in France, where he had been living for many years. TASO was a keen…

Racers that are going, going, gone Scheduled to appear in the Bonhams sale at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on June 24 is 'Denise', the Coupe de l'Auto trophy-winning 1911…

Technical innovation marks Ligier's Judd V8-engined Formula One contender for this season, the JS31. To bring the driver's feet behind the front axle line (as new regulations demand) without upsetting…

Brands Hatch, Kent THE 2011 EDITION OF THE BIGGEST historic meeting on the Brands Hatch schedule was easily the best yet, with a vast entry of 450 cars spilling out…

The Williams Renault Formula 1 Motor Racing Book, by Xavier Chimitis and Francois Granet. Dorling Kindersley, £9.99. According to the PR spiel, this is published by Dorling Kindersley Adult Books,…

The Vintage Renaults Sir, The reference to "abominable brakes" in M. Jorrand's letter in your September issue prompts me to mention the magnificent brakes on the 13.9-h.p. (2,121 c.c.) "semi-sports…

Sir, It was good to read Bill Boddy's account of the origins of the Brighton Run in the December issue. A pity that in his commendable striving for accuracy, there…

Michael Frostick. 230 pp. 11 in. x 9¼ in. (G. T. Foulis & Co., Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset. £1.95). Here is an interesting volume by the great scissors-and-paste author. I never…

DON'S DAY ONA SUNIIEAM RATED at 4,000 h.p., weighing four and a half tons and measuring 31ft. lin. from stern to stern, the Sunbeam "Silver Bullet," with which Kaye Don…

A Real Aeroplane in Miniature: the Druine Turbulent IN Great Britain the skies can hardly be said to be filled with aeroplanes of any sort, and certainly they are not…