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THE BEST AT THE MOTOR SHOW Sir, After having had a good look around at this year's Motor Show, I was surprised to note that subsequent issues of your journal…

A SECTION DEVOTED TO OLD-CAR MATTERS A talk with a Motoring Barrister SOON after I had referred, in the August issue of MOTOR SPORT, to the hearing of an appeal…

SLIP-UP Last year we commented, in connection with disputes that arose out of the braking test in the Scottish Rally, that it Is a responsibility of the R.A.C. Competitions Department…

Almost four years after the first Ford Cortina left the Dagenham production line the 1,000,000th one was completed. No other car made in Britain has sold so prolifically in this span…

The Shegness Affair IT was unfortunate that the weather did not favour the meeting that was held on July 17th and 18th, but, uninviting as it was, it failed to…

Sir, I was pleased to see your article on Rileys in the November edition, though your tone seems to indicate that you are not at all sure that they are…

Project J5 Sir, DSJ asks to what purpose is J5 being built (Letter to Readers, February 1989). J5 is being built just for the hell of it; the specification was…

In this absorbing article, rather on the lines of those in Motor Sport's "Cars I Have Owned" series, G. Sandford-Morgan of Adelaide proves that to the enthusiast motoring for sport is…

Having enjoyed "Motor Tramp" by John Heygate (see this column last December), I set about reading his earlier book "Talking Picture" (Cape, 1934), which the local library eventually, after a…

Sir, I was most interested to read in the June issue about Erik Addyman of Starbeck and his cars as for some Iwo years in the early nineteen-fifties he was…

Sir, I was interested to read the letter from Timothy Houlding concerning his difficulties over licensing his Bentley and I have already spoken to him to pass on the benefits…

Every new racing season brings fresh challenges to man and machine. But as the teams gathered for the first Grand Prix of the year, they knew they'd be batting on…