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Sir, I am amused by correspondence regarding 'Phi-Phi' Etancelin's final season. I can assure WB and your readers he was still racing in 1954. In the inaugural meeting at Aintree…

Sir, How time distorts the memory. In an otherwise excellent article on the Monaco Toleman in the November issue it was stated that Ayrton Senna overtook Alain Prost to take…

M.G. SUCCESSES IN AUSTRALIA A cable received by the Nutlield Organisation from Australia reported big M.G. successes in the Queensland Road Racing Championship. The Championship took place in August, but…

Sir, I read John Whitmore's letter with interest and sympathy. I think one reason for the occasional motorist getting a raw deal in court, is that the deciding of whether,…

The first seeds of many a great enterprise have been planted by the meeting of two young people with similar ambitions and complementary talents: like the day in May 1904…

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT SECTION FOR SALE 1C,:ts Series. T.A. Midget liniShrd IVI•kY• new t bat teries. Priv:II, IN oNN lied. Beautifully kept. Price X295. Donald C. Pitt, Rodborough Crest, Stroud. Glos.…

Automobile Year 36 (1988-89) edited by Jean-Rodolphe Piccard. 280pp. 121/4" x 91/4. (Motor Racing Publications Ltd, Unit 6, The Pilton Estate, Croydon, Surrey CRO 3RY. £22.95). Twenty years ago Automobile…

Sir, Looking at the picture on page 47 of February’s issue, Jean Rondeau’s eponymous M379 puts me in mind of the FIA’s much-vaunted ‘Centreline Downwash Generating Wing’, Formula 1’s alleged cure-all. Isn’t…

M.G. GIVES BRITAIN A LEAD THE NEW R TYPE MIDGET RACING MODEL INCORPORATES TORSION ROD INDEPENDENT SPRINGING FOR ALL FOUR WHEELS, INDEPENDENT STEERING, A Y SHAPED BOX FRAME, GIRLING BRAKES,…

A section devoted to old-car maters Having amassed a fine collection of vintage motor-cars since he gave up rallying, Bill Meredith Owens needed somewhere to house them, so he decided…

Sir, The Le Mans Chenards were briefly mentioned in your February "Vintage Postbag". A rather unlikely former owner of one of these was, apparently, the gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.…

From a number of sources recently there has arisen the suggestion that motor racing is unlikely to regain after the war the status it once enjoyed, and that never again will…