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Back in 1978, at my suggestion, Roger Collings took me on his well-known 1903 Sixty Mercedes for a long run, to personally commemorate the 75th anniversary of Jenatzy having won…

A SPORTS THREE-LITRE THE MOVEO WITH MEADOWS ENGINE AND SEVERAL INTERESTING FEATURES HE designer of a new car is in the happy position of not being hampered in his search…

Oxford U.M.D.C. The Oxford U.M.D.C. intends to run its exacting Targa Rusticana Rally on March 13/14th. This is an event based on the belief that such contests should be run…

Sir, I sympathise with Mr. J. Howard following trouble which has been experienced with batteries of our manufacture. We freely acknowledge that we have experienced trouble with the battery type…

The Latest News from the Continent. THE closing months of a year are always full of startling news as to the plans of racing-drivers for the coming year. If a…

Sir, In the " General Notes " of " Club News " in your June issue a 12/50 side valve Alvis is mentioned. Intrigued by this phenomenon I turned back…

"The Beginning of the End?" Sir, I read the above article in the May issue of Motor Sport. I was not aware of any regulations of the name mentioned by…

The British Touring Car Championship has seen a huge increase in spectator support and viewing figures on its new channel, ITV 4. The series reached a peak in the 1990s,…

In his March Editorial Simon Arron wrote of the Memorial Day Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, saying that, for reasons he dealt with, "a piece of folklore which is conducted in much…

Private Flying in the U.S.A. During the course of the inaugural Wakefield Memorial Lecture marking the centenary of Lord Wakefield's birth, which Peter Masefield, M.A. (Eng.), Fr.Ae.S., M.Inst.T., Hon. F.I.A.S.,…

Ferrari Revived. - In the accompanying photographs we see a 1.1/2-litre V12 Ferrari supercharged Grand Prix car as it was in 1951 and as it is in 1974. This is…

VETERAN TYPES IX. A 1900 SINGLE-CYLINDER BENZ. NO one who ever looks at the daily papers can have failed to notice some little time ago a series of photographs of…