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Budget for Success
Sir, No doubt in common with many lifelong followers of motorsport I frequently find my mind, when it ought to…
February 1996
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Alvis Survival
Sir, Kenneth Day's statement (January correspondence) that "All Alvis works entries and record breaking cars from 1928 to 1930 employed…
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Peter Walker: Jaguar's forgotten Le Mans hero
Frequented by ordinary, everyday drinking folk there isn't, and never has been, anything particularly remarkable about the Horse & Groom…
Page 60
Barn Stormer
That's because the contents of Geoff Temple's farm are not exactly common knowledge Most people thought that only one Chevron…
Page 64
Le Jog
1995 was the third successive year in which John Brown has run his Land's End to John O'Groats Reliability Trial,…
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Forgotten Makes: The Mass
I will try to avoid making too much of the rather crude joke that the Mass must have been so-named…
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V-to-C Miscellany, February 1996, February 1996
The Formula One Club has with commendable partiality agreed to issue a set of limited edition postal covers to raise…
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Some Club Fixtures
Those with brand-new 1996 diaries may care to note the following fixtures among others of course, issued by some ambitious…
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VSCC Winter DTs
The usual site of this event was shifted this year from the heights of the Enstone plateau to the spaciousness…
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Motor sport Brooklands Memorial Trophy
This was won for 1995 by M A Gillies (Riley) with 83 points. The runners-up were A J Seber (Wolseley)…
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VSCC Results Kentish Rally
Those who gained First Class Awards in the autumnal rally on September 17 were P Hart (Humber), I Potter (Alvis),…
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Verzons Vintage
The VSCC has a number of New Year's Day gatherings of the right sort of cars, this year's especially notable…
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Straight's War
The article about Whitney Straight's motor racing was well received and produced an enthusiastic letter from his daughter in New…
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. . . And Another TT Error-Or was It?
A long time ago I was told that, but for a pit-stop, Capt Frazer Nash, with one of Lord Austin's…
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That 1928 TT
A number of further thoughts herewith on the article about the 1928 TT in the December 1995 MOTOR SPORT, about…
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A Racing Driver's Aeroplane
I would not like to attempt to list all those personalities who have been associated both with motor racing and…
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V-C Miscellany, February 1996
Aston Martin people must have been delighted with the first edition of the new AM publication and the fine colour…
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Kenneth Neve, OBE
Sadly, the entire vintage motoring world is mourning the death, after a long illness, of Kenneth Neve, OBE, at the…
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To Fly or Not to Fly
Research reveals interesting facts from the past. For instance, I have been wondering whether that great pre-war German racing driver,…
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Chancellor, Thank You.
Kenneth Clarke, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, dropped a surprise into his Budget Speech, with the exemption from "Road Fund"…
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