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SHINING ARMAGH SIR, I enjoyed the article on the Tui, but must inform you that Bert Hawthorne was born at Derryhennitt near Keady, County Armagh in Northen Ireland, and was…

As the historic racing season drew to a close, Richard and Trisha Pilkington's TOPS historic racing car club masterminded an 'end of term' October tour culminating in a Grand Prix…

BRIGHTON SPEED TRIALS Car E.T.D. by Parker's H. K.-Jaguar Special. Allard Dragster Beaten by Three Pre-1914 Motor Cars IT is traditional that in September the Brighton National Speed Trials take…

Convention Conquers Complexity The complexities of today's ultra-fast rally Car, its power and performance completely controlled by printed circuits, delicate microchips and other products of electronic miniaturisation, may be fine…

The car that never was and never will be. That's the story of the Lea-Francis Francesca. This car, the open version of which is pictured below, is on offshoot of…

SPA 1,000 km. THE finale of the World Endurance Championship for Manufacturers took place at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium on Sunday September 5th. The WEC crown was being contested by Ford,…

Two Fine Specimens The two fine specimens referred to were tamed by Mr. Gerald Albertini and consist of his famous tulipwood Hispano-Suiza and a just-post-vintage straight-eight Isotta-Fraschini. The Hispano-Suiza is…

Jj /.) .3) _1:1 _ILY_1_-) (jail) ILL/ J. 1J 'j_k_d__`1 9_11 _5_/) J I IL/JI IIiJJJ Oh dear! You can't help but feel a degree of sympathy for Eddie Irvine,…

Compared with its immortal rival, the sleek Suprmnarine Spitfire featured in last month's Motor Sport, the Hawker Hurricane was considered by some to be the ugly duckling of the two.…

Twenty years after the Porsche 911 made its debut at the Frankfurt Show (then as the type 901), the fastest normally aspirated version yet made has been announced with the Carrera badge.…

In recent years there's been a spate of new circuits in world championship use, and I mean tracks not merely new to Formula One, but tracks new, period, built in…

From "Summoned By Bells," by John Betjemann (John Murray, 1960) we discover that Betjemann remembers a Delaunay-Belleville crawling up West Hill, Highgate in its noisy bottom gear, prior to World…