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KAYE DON BREAKS MORE RECORDS Driving his two-litre supercharged 6 cylinder Grand Prix Sunbeam at Brooklands on May 30th, Mr. Kaye Don succeeded in breaking the following International Records in…

Formula One private entrant-turnedconstructor Guy Ligier's first (and only) open sports prototype raced just three times, in 1971. It finished second in the 3-hour Le Mans Trial in April and…

THE J.C.C. AT 1: ROOKLANDS MANY FAILURES IN TESTS SIMILAR TO THOSE SET AT HASTINGS. FOR their opening Rally, the Junior Car Club had the excellent idea of using the…

A FORD FLAT-FOUR The Ford Motor Company has taken out a patent (No. 863,246) for a 4-cylinder horizontally-opposed engine with single-piece block. This is a push-rod o.h.v. unit and, apart…

An impressive line-up of cars outside the Earl of Bradford's house at the preview of the Midland Festival of Transport provided a foretaste of the machinery which will be on…

ROVING RACERS ON THE HIGH SEAS Faced An two races a week apart n Spah and Sbly, the S-T-D team set sdl An keen yachtsman Kendm Lee Ganness ontesting two…

Having last month posed the mystery of a Sunbeam lorry which figures in a book by Ronald Duncan, I came upon it again in his "All Men Are Islands" (Hart-Davis,…

More equipment, less charisma; we have seen the process a dozen times and more. Mass manufacturer comes up with a sporting car that catches on in the USA and Europe.…

The Rolls-Royce and Bentley Pageant at Goodwood (May 23rd) Organised jointly by the Bentley D.C., 20 Ghost Club, Midland R.-R. Club, R.-R. Enthusiasts' Club, and the Rolls-Royce Section of the…

The show goes on . . . For the inhabitants of Padua, the third weekend in April is now traditionally announced by the roar of racing engines and the sight…

More Power for Austin-Healey The Austin Motor Company announces that a new cylinder head, developed from experience gained in the record-breaking runs at Utah, is now available for the Austin-Healey100-Six.…

Recent publications on the one-make/one model front include new Brooklands Books reprints covering 1947-87 Capri's, the BMW M-Series 1976-93, and two Alfa Romeo volumes, about the 1980-86 GTV6 and the…