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One of Britain's best all-round drivers died at the end of August, aged 81. Well known for his exploits on rallies such as the Monte Carlo, Coupe des Alpes, Tulip, Acropolis,…

One Of The Last True Giants -- E.D. Woolley's Renault 45 Those Motor Sport readers of longstanding who remember my articles on white elephant cars, i.e. the scarce pre-war specimens,…

"The Story of the British Light Aeroplane," by Terence Boughton. 320 pp., 10 in. x 6 1/8 in. (John Murray, 50, Albemarle Street, London, W.1. 42s.) This is a simply…

Being a student I cannot afford a car, let alone a fine pair, but I was prompted to write about my parents' cars. My father is a doctor in Central…

At the end of one of the strangest races ever held at the Nürburgring, only one Mercedes-Benz, and one Auto-Union was left running in the German Grand Prix, out of…

THE DONINGTON LAP RECORD BROKEN C. S. STANILAND (BUGATTI) RAISES THE COVETED RECORD TO 69.51 M.P.H. AND ALSO IMPROVES ON THE 10 LAP FIGURE. EVERITT'S Q TYPE M.G. MIDGET AND…

Motor Sport will welcome visits from its many friends during the Earls Court Motor Show from October 22nd to November 1st. Our stand will be No. 77, on the ground floor. The November…

Market Engineering Ltd would like to make it clear that the press material referred to in last month's Things They Say was not issued by them, or by Millbrook Proving…

Nigel Mansell - World Champion. Simon & Schuster, £3.99. Anything that contains the line "At last the scream of tortured metal filled the air" smacks of a 1970s motor racing…

A section devoted to old-car matters World-Wide Bentley Day It was typical of Stanley Sedgwick, President of the Bentley DC. Recognising that May 23rd of this year was the 40th…

North of the Arctic Circle with Saab January 1982 gave the British Motorist one of his rare glimpses of Arctic conditions and, for the most part, he didn't like it.…

Sir, Your letter in the January issue of Motor Sport from a gentleman regarding failure of successive car batteries raises an interesting subject for discussion which has, so far, not been…