Articles from the archive

While thinking about the E.R.A. "Romulus" and looking through the Motor Sport archives I came across some rare photographs and some rare occasions. I was trying to find evidence of…

M.O.T: TESTING Sir, Mr. M. H. Armstrong's attitude to garages concerning M.O.T. tests, based on one, albeit hair-raising, .encounter, is wholly unreasonable. He is under the misguided impression that garages…

(July 24th/25th) The Sunbeam Register this year held its fourth rally to the birthplace of the cars it fosters. Entries ranged from C. F. South's 1913 12/16 tourer to two…

An old-style Formule Libre race for a wide range of historic and more recent single-seaters will run at the opening Masters event of the season at Oulton Park on Saturday…

Sir, I first saw Sir Jack at Snetterton when he stayed in front of Moss in the wet, despite being in a bobtailed Cooper Sports and Moss in a 250F…

Sir, Reading one part of WB's account of Edward Riddle's GNs, I realised how glad I am not to be a qualified engineer such as Edward Riddle is. If I…

BOXING DAY AT BRANDS HATCH THE best of good fortune did not attend the B.R. & S.C.C. in its bold project of staging the second Christmas race meeting at Brands…

Sir, I was fascinated to read (Motor Sport, November) an account of the rebuild of a type 35B Bugatti, discovered in Portugal, and would like to add some detail to the…

Sir, I have it on the best of authority that, with reference to the ADO 28, two-wheel brakes and a crash gearbox are to be available as optional extras. Gareth…

Toyota, like its great rival Nissan, was a company in a hurry in the late 1960s. A 1300bhp per tonne sort of a hurry. A Group 7 twin-turbocharged 5-litre V8…

Formula One technicalities As the highly-respected mooring writer Karl Ludvigsen, Vice-President of Ford-of-Europe Inc., reminded us last month, the engine-capacity regulations, the formulae, governing what is technically permissible "under the…

I was able to put in many more miles the other week in the V8 Pontiac Parisienne Sports Sedan I commented on in the July issue. This time the electric…