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LETTERS FROM READERS, January 1962 - Left

LETTERS FROM READERS, January 1962

LETTERS FROM READERS N.B.—Opinions expressed are those of our Correspondents and "Motor Sport" does not necessarily associate itself with thern.—Ed WEST GERMAN PRICES Sir, " So B.M.C. means business .…

January 1962 Issue

To Goodwood in a Jaguar

Observations on a possible new motor course and a very outstanding British high performance car Late in June a green 3-1/2-litre Jaguar saloon arrived outside our offices for test purposes and…

August 1948 Issue

312T5 (1980)

"When we got into the season, I realised the teams running DFVs had taken about three steps forward with their ground-effect cars and we had only made a small improvement over…

November 2002 Issue

RUMBLINGS, February 1936

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…

February 1936 Issue

Do Or Die

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…

October 1996 Issue

CHRISTOPHER HILTON, AUTHOR

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…

September 2002 Issue

Le Mans - The Jaguar Years

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…

March 1997 Issue

FISA waves stick at Le Mans

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…

January 1990 Issue

Rob Roy

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…

October 1990 Issue

Estoril back on Calendar

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…

April 2012 Issue

CARS IN BOOKS, April 1960

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)…

April 1960 Issue