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Reconsider your verdict
ON March 20th, the Royal Automobile Club issue d a statement which damns any hope of holding a war-time competition…
April 1940
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A dangerous subject
OF late, it has been fashionable for certain daily, weekly and monthly papers, magazines, digests and whatnot, to publish distinctly…
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This rally business
This nom-de-plume hides the identity of a regular rally competitor, who drives a Frazer-Nash-B.M.W. we present his suggestions in the…
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Voltage sports high coil
The use of wide sparking plug gaps has been shown to effect an improvement in both performance and economy, especially…
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A two-stroke home-brewed cycle-car
Details have reached us from Fenn-Wiggan of his very intriguing special, which is of especial interest now that really small-engined…
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The reminiscences of H. L. BIGGS
No. 1.—The Taking of the 1,100 c.c. Hour Record by Widengren's Amilcar [H. L. Biggs served his apprenticeship with John…
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Club News, April 1940
B.O.C. The Bugatti Owners' Club held a very pleasant dinner and film-show at the R.A.C. at the end of February.…
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Cars I have owned
[Donald Monro, whose extremely cheery countenance is a prominent feature of Bugatti Owners' Club meetings, has made motoring one of…
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Rumblings, April 1940
Advanced Design OF recent years, sports-cars of advanced design, that is to say, of the roller-bearing, twin o.h.c., hand-assembled sort,…
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Letters from readers, April 1940
Sir, I read with great interest the article by Mr. Cooper, in the January issue, on the 12/50 and 12/60…
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Sports-car development
LAURENCE POMEROY, JUNR., has contributed many articles of extreme interest to "The Motor" since becoming Technical Editor, and he has…
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On some motoring aspects of the present war
I THINK we can fairly safely assume that war is a novel experience tor the great majority of present-day motoring…
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