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During, the first six months of 1949, exports of Lodge plugs — largely to hard currency areas — were seven times the value of the company's pre-war overseas sales. During…

Zateio THE WOLSELEY "GRASSHOPPER" Sir, I am purchasing a four-cylinder 10.8 h.p. Wolseley " Grasshopper " tourer of approximately 1927 vintage. The price g, taxed to the end of the…

Rene Dreyfus the former Bugatti star who had lived in New York since the War, returned to the Montlhery circuit recently to relive the hardest race of his career. One…

V.S.C.C. POMEROY TROPHY COMPETITION News from the Registers. The Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq Register's Inter-Register contest will be a day rally in Warwickshire on June 3rd. The Fiat Register's driving tests and Concorsa…

Motorway speeds From The Earl Howe, CBE, DL, JP Sir, I should like to give support to your editorial in September Motor Sport under your heading Matters of Moment "An…

The final round of the SCCA's Continental Championship for Formula A cars was not held until three days after Christmas, over three months after the previous race, and resulted in…

Owing to the general prosperity of the country many people have found that they have time and money for another hobby other than motoring and many of them have turned…

Road-test impressions of the Fiat 600D — Notes on the new Renault R8 and Simca 1000 The Fiat 600D Until the other day it had been a considerable time since…

A 1911 60-h.p. Cottin et Desgouttes Big Edwardian racing cars are comparatively few and far between and "new" ones have not appeared for some appreciable time. Perhaps the most recent…

THE VETERAN CAR CLUB'S SOCIAL Another of the Veteran Car Club's " lunchwith-films " meetings was held on April 22nd at the Waldorf and was very well attended, over 100…

Sir, A friend recently popped through my door a copy of MOTOR SPORT from April 1992 showing C J Hamilton's Invicta on the start line at Goodwood in 1955. I…

AMERICA'S SPECIALIST MARKET Sir, Lt.-Col. Frank Spier, who writes you so interestingly about the reliability of American cars, is quite typical of many people in the U.S.A. They buy their…