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FOLLOWING recent correspondence about the Triumph TR range, it may be interesting to relate the experiences of two staff MG-Bs over a period of some 8o,000 miles, being a similar,…

The Diamond Jubilee Motor Show FOR THE 60th Diamond Jubilee edition of the Motor Show, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders increased the finance for staging the Earls Court…

Colin McRae takes a third straight win in New Zealand, and keeps his slim WRC hopes alive. Sponsorship of events, teams and drivers by tobacco companies, notably to promote particular…

The Veteran Run ... 279 Sideslips ... 283 Reports of Recent Events ... 284 Motor Sport '' Road-Test (Post-war Series) No. I ... 285 Great British Achievements — VI ...…

MID 11111D ;4,11, "v44.• British High Performance ALTHOUGH at the present time International relationships are unpleasantly strained, we have no wish to slight foreign products, nor do we intend to…

LEINSTER TROPHY RACE The Leinster Trophy International Race will be run on July 21st next over 15 laps of the Wicklow Circuit of 8.84 miles. It will include a Formula…

On our way to VSCC Shelsley Walsh, we called in at the 21st Bromyard Gala in Hereford and Worcester, which has one of the finest displays you could expect to…

Like many schoolboys in post-War Britain, I had an insatiable appetite for stories about a character called Wilson. He'd swim the Channel before breakfast, score a pre-lunch century against the…

CALLING on Michael May the other day we were invited to take a short drive in his, or more correctly his mother's, 1929 3-litre AM 80 Hotchkiss saloon. This one-owner…

Sir, The photograph of a Rolls Royce being used as a breakdown truck (Veteran to Classic, Motor Sport, June 1989) was most interesting. The car is a 1923 Rolls Royce…

Having accepted an invitation from Dudley Gahagan to ride with him to this meeting in his 1926 Type 37 Grand Prix Bugatti, I was delighted when the Great Freeze Up…

Sir, Following Michael Schumacher's accident at the British Grand Prix, I wonder if a progressively deeper gravel trap, used to slow cars being driven into it before the usual final…