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SOME SPECIAL BENTLEYS Mr. McKenzie, of McKenzie's Garages Ltd., 1, Bridge Place, Belgrave Road, London, S.W.1, was with the RollsRoyce Company before the War, engaged in the experimental and competition…

• • • MESSENGER SPECIALS Sir, As the possessor of a not very usual name, a life-long follower Of an ',equally unusual sport, and quite a number of years ago…

Throughout the first weekend in April, Duns, Berwickshire, was buzzing. Commercial Street was choked with traffic. Formula One Lotuses, Super Sevens, Elites, Jaguar D-Types. It was choked with people, too.…

DONINGTON COLLECTION, DERBY Don't pass by this Treasure Trove It's the finest assessment of the Grand Prix cars on earth. So why haven't you been? The museum at Donington houses…

A complaint still voiced by many people is of the lack of interest shown by manufacturers in the sun roof. Very popular before the War they have gone right out…

Damon Hill said that he was going to modify his approach to work this year. Simon Arron studied the evidence at the British Grand Prix Ferrari President Luca di Montezernolo…

The splendid wood-rimmed wheel fitted to the Flavia prompts us to deplore the usual slippery black device fitted to the average car. These have long been disliked, as witnessed by…

A difference one liffle letter can make. The Nissan Juke is an odd-looking and dynamically very ordinary 'crossover' hatchback. It has been a runaway sales success. A Nissan Juke R…

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by W. J. Hughes and Joseph L. Thomas. 320 pp. 84 in. x 54 in. (David & Charles Ltd., Sauth Devon House, Newton Abbott, Devon. £5.95.), If the Foden was…

In the course of the 1997 Formula 1 season, it emerged that McLaren’s MP4/12 was equipped with a novel brake-steer system. Via an extra pedal, the driver could quell understeer by braking…

PREVIOUS WINNERS. 1924. M. Benoist (B.H.P.), 98 k.p.h. 1925. Bejot (Bugatti), 111 k.p.h. 1926. Wagner (Delage), 123 k.p.h. 1927. Eyston (Bugatti), 119 k.p.h. 1928. Blacque-Belair (Bugatti), 124 k.p.h. 1929. Etancelin…