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Air mail

Pioneer air fleet Sir, In view of your most interesting series "Wartime Diaries elan RFC officer", I wonder if your readership can throw light on why Mann & Egerton at Bury Sr.…

September 1980 Issue

TRACK TESTS SOLITUDE

TRACK TESTS SOLITUDE IT NEVER HELD A CHAMPIONSHIP GRAND PRIX BUT THAT DID NOT STOP THE SOLITUDE CIRCUIT BEING ONE OF THE MOST FEARED IN MOTOR RACING. MATTHEW FRANEY GOES…

December 1999 Issue

Before We Lose Track

Before We Lose Track THE 1975 Grand Prix Ferraris were an entirely new series of cars but they continued the 1974 serial numbers and one final 1974 car was built…

November 1975 Issue

Reviews, April 2005

The Grand Prix Collection DVD/VHS.10 x 52mins www.dukevideo.com £149.99 (DVD)/£129.99 (VHS) with free copy of Formula One 1980: or individually £16.99 (DVD)/ £14.99 (VHS) It wasn't until James Hunt ignited…

April 2005 Issue

Guardian against disaster

Sir, With reference to Adam Cooper's excellent feature about Jochen Rindt in October's Motor Sport, and further to Malcolm Ginsberg's letter the following month, I was living in Italy at…

January 2001 Issue

The Roads of the 1920s

Owen John’s diary gave some good advice in 1927 about hotels. This is too dated to have any value today, of course, although names such as the “Beetle and Wedge”…

June 1988 Issue

By Bill Boddy

Parting Shot

French Grand Prix, Paul Ricard, July 1, 1973 Roughly half the grid turned out for this photo op, including (from left) George Follmer, Wilson and Emerson Filtipaldi, Carlos Reutemann, Denny…

December 2011 Issue

ERLEN CIRCUIT FORMULA II RACE

ERLEN CIRCUIT FORMULA II RACE (August 12th) to ; P. Whit,!liva,1 U'vrntri I. 1414 miles hi 1 hr, 26 min. 41.3 sc., 72.2 m.p.h. 2ait : K. Fisher iFerrari), 1…

September 1951 Issue

Recent Results

Rhyl & Dist. M.C. Mid-Summer Rally Experts: Blomfield Trophy: E Edwards (VW) "Clean sheet." Jaguar Trophy (navigator's award): Mrs. Edwards. First-Class Awards: J. H. N. Wood (VW) (navigator, J. B. Auld),…

July 1957 Issue

Alta remains

Sir, I was interested in Mr. John Norman's letter in the September issue on the Alta remnants which browned in the late fifties, and I think that Jean in part…

November 1981 Issue

veteran edwardian vintage, May 1962

VETERANEDWARDIAN VINTAGE A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters V.S.C.C. SILVERSTONE RACE MEETING (April 14th) IN spite of bitterly cold weather both grandstands at Silverstone were full for the V.S.C.C. Meeting…

May 1962 Issue