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I do not propose to have an "Oh Dear . . ." Department this month, because most of the slip-ups in last month's issue were typographical errors, easily understood, one…

A number of private European entrants went out to S. Africa for the 9-hour race on the KyIami circuit, and the event proved to be a good battle between David…

The last sports car in the vintage style All the other cars dealt with in this series of road tests of under £700 sports cars are in the 1,100-c.c. category…

Carocciola (Mercedes-Benz) wins the Tripoli G.P. by a narrow margin from Varzi (Auto-Union). The Bimotore Alfo-Romeos handicapped by tyres. 122.03 m.p.h. for 500 kilometres, including several pit stops! What an…

A new circuit for the Coys Festival was the seal of a great weekend, says Alan Cox. This year's Coys International Historic Festival at Silverstone, in association with Chrysler to…

Cotswold Motor Museum's innovative project will feature input from its visitors On my way back from a rally in the Cotswolds last autumn I paused for something to eat in…

Sir, Keith Howard's Technofile article on carbon/carbon clutches (August issue) implies that Tilton invented the lug drive clutch in the 1980s, "an entirely new method of clutch construction was needed.…

FOG AND RAIN ENCOUNTERED ON ALL ROUTES " IN-AND-OUT " AND HILL-CLIMB ELIMINATING TES TS Out of the 276 cars which took part in the fifth R.A.C. Rally only twenty-one…

A VETERAN GOES TO REST. Many of our readers will remember seeing Sir Malcolm Campbell at the wheel of a 1905 10 h.p. 2-cylinder Rolls-Royce in the Veterans' Run to…

At Taggs Island in the Thames on October 16th, A.C. Cars Ltd. entertained the Press at the Casino built in 1913 by Fred Karno, for the purpose of introducing their new…

Racing cars, in general, have short lives. After one or two seasons they are uncompetitive, overtaken in both senses. Today, with the expansion of the historic scene, huge numbers of…

TRYING A " SECONDHANDER " IV. -A RECONDITIONED RILEY NINE. IT is not so many years ago that one heard a great deal of talk amongst motor traders about what…