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Sir, Your correspondent E. Marshall, writing on the demerits of RFC X-ley Tenders, has a few facts wrong, i.e. the transmission brake was definitely intended to be used as a…

Sir, I read the article on the FAST (Fragments on Forgotten Makes, Motor Sport, April 1988) with interest. When I was in Argentina in about 1980, I followed up a…

Building sports cars from kits is a fairly recent innovation, judged by the long run of motoring history. Making an entire car, or cyclecar, at home was a product of…

It should have come as no surprise to find cars mentioned in Young Betjeman by Bevis Hillier (John Murray, 1988), because the Poet Laureate mentioned them in his poems, but…

NEW SPORTS TWO-SEATER USEFUL PERFORMANCE LIKELY FOR THE LATEST VI2 4.3-LITRE ATALANTA LAST month MOTOR SPORT VMS able to give the first published road test of the V12 Atalanta saloon,…

MODEL AEROPLANES AT BROOKLANDS AN extremely successful meeting was held at Brooklands Aerodrome on Sunday (September 11th). It was the latest of the periodical Brooklands "At Home" Days, and on…

GREAT RACING MARQUES. xi' PANHARD ET LEVASSOR. By E. K. H. KARSLAKE. Far back in the old heroic days, before most of the cars which are now famous had ever…

Today’s manufacturers are working furiously on ‘new’ technologies – but we’ve been here before, as Rétromobile’s main theme proved The Paris Exposition Centre at Porte de Versailles opened its doors…

Sir, I was delighted to read DSJ's letter (in February's MOTOR SPORT) on his pace notes for the 1955 Mille Miglia. By a strange coincidence I had been in my…

Through my 20-odd years as a Grand Prix journalist, I have been repeatedly surprised by the drivers' lack of childhood enthusiasm for motor racing. Most, indeed, seem almost to have…

How many more? Dear Reader, The letter from Nigel Musselwhite in last month's issue of Motor Sport, about the copy of the MG Ex120 record breaking car that he made in…

Vintage Postbag Riley 9 laistorY Sir, It was with great interest and a keen sense of nostalgia that I read your article "The Brooklands Speed Model Riley Nine" in the…