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Sir, During a recent holiday on the lovely island of Ibiza my wife and I were introduced to a small bar and restaurant called The Black Cat. Picture the scene,…

Sir, According to Ricardo (1927) the Clerget rotary engine had a solid cylinder with head and two vertical valves operated by rockers. The Bentley rotary had a detachable head and…

The Editor Meets Again That Well-Known 1907 42 hp Renault I first met "Agatha — That Scarlet Woman" 50 years ago. That is what she was called when the Mills…

I was just 19 years old, and I had just blitzed the opposition. I felt like a Grand Prix driver. Yes, odd though it may seem considering some of the…

A Successful Members' Meeting at Silverstone W. A. L. Cook (4 1/2-litre Bentley) Makes Fastest Average in One-hour High-speed Trial. Habershon (1 1/2-litre G.P. Delage) Wins the "1908 G.P. Itala"…

Sir, May I draw your attention to a misprint in "Matters of Moment," in last month's issue. The statement should read—"The motor-car is man's most coveted possession." (Full-stop.) Anne F.…

After the raveges of the Brazilian GP there was a lot of rebuilding going on in the various teams and also a lot of building of new cars ready for…

Group C revival & Int. Sportscar Cup, Spa The combination of win Percy and Don Law's Jaguar XJR-16 proved much too rapid for the rest of the Group C Revival…

256 pp. 5-5/8 in. x 4-1/4 in. (B. T. Botsford Ltd., 4, Fitzhardinge Street, London, W.1. 9s. 6d.) Botsford made a great hit with their "Vintage Car Pocketbook" and followed…

Take yourself back thirty years to Spa, May 1, 1967. It's a little before 1.00pm and the 1000 kilometres of Francorchamps is about to be begin. Dickie Attwood, sitting on…

SIDESLIPS IN his article in the September number Of MOTOR Seoter on the 1909 sixcylinder Napier, Mr. Kent Kerslake quoted the Hon. C. S. Rolls as declaring that the "…

WINNER OF THE prematurely terminated Spanish Grand Prix was Jochen Mass (opposite top), whose McLaren M23 had completed 29 of the prescribed 75 laps when the chequered flag came out.…