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Always at the forefront in tyre design, the Italian firm of Pirelli released its new tyres to a somewhat startled gathering of motoring journalists in London recently. This tyre, called…

Last year there was a race for Maserati cars only, at a VSCC meeting at Silverstone, with a good turn-out of pre-war cars from Bologna and post-war cars from Modena,…

Which Brand? Selling petrol provides enormous scope for the publicity bods because it is a commodity which sells at the same price whatever the brand and which, to the lay-motorist…

Sir, Although any individual motoring enthusiast is entitled to his loyalty to the make he most favours, I should not like your readers to think that Mr. Martin Jubb is…

(By means of which our European reporter occasionally keeps in touch with the Editor.) Dear W.B. As I write this the Grand Prix season is coming to an end in…

AUTO UNION TEAM COMPLETE With the signing on of Georg Meier, the Auto-Union team now reads Nuvolari, Muller, Hasse, Meier, with Bigalke as reserve. House full. Meier is one of…

NEW MODEL HILLMAN AT BROOKLANDS. " " The 14 h.p. " Husky " Sports Hillman, which was introduced recently, has already shown that it is a real sports car in…

SOME information, perhaps more for younger readers, this month. Hornby Hobbies 20th "Scalextric Model Motor Racing Catalogue" has been issued. It not only describes this system of electric slot-race track…

Swansea M.C. There were 35 entries for the Enoch Car Rally on Sunday, March 27th, starting from Fairwood Aerodrome, including one very new car bought and run-in especially for the…

A Road-Test Report on the Latest Hillman—The Rootes Group's Great Gamble THERE WAS so much advance publicity for the Hillman Avenger that I thought it must either be the family…

Back in 1963, Marcos, a limited volume sports car manufacturer founded four years previously by Jem Marsh (a sprightly sixty-something, and still at the helm today) and Frank Costin, introduced…