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V-E-V odds & ends, September 1981
Further to that mysterious 1913 Coupe de L'Auto Peugeot which we have been commenting on recently, we have heard that…

Further to that mysterious 1913 Coupe de L'Auto Peugeot which we have been commenting on recently, we have heard that…
Harold Hastings With the death of Harold Charles Hastings at the age of 74 another link with pre-war motoring journalism…
Laycock Engineering Ltd have issued a Centenary brochure, having been making their well-known products for the automobile and engineering industries since…
Light aeroplanes Sir, As one of your avid readers, who learnt to fly in gliders shot from long rubber ropes,…
Having written about the 36/220 and 38/250 sic Mercedes-Benz, the Brooklands-model Riley 9, the Gordon England Brooklands-model Austin 7 and the…
The Editor makes the acquaintance of an historic singer " ... certainly one of the most under-rated cars of this neglected (1934) period:…
Rather Dull Hockenheimring, August 2nd After the green and pleasant garden-party atmosphere of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, with its…
A critical stage in the championship With four further rounds of the British Hill Climb Championship still to come, the scene…
alfa romeo
Standard House is quite an Alfa Romeo-orientated place and we reported favourably last year on the Alfa Romeo 6 saloon and have…
"The Best of British Buses-No. 4, 75 Years of Aldershot and District" by Alan Townsin. 96 pp 111/2'' x 8". (The…
"Capri — The Development & Competition History of Ford's European GT Car" by Jeremy Walton. 284 pp. 10" x 7".…
After writing so much in recent months about those significant pre-1914 Peugeot racing cars, it was fun to be driving…
The Police and the Law Sir, I write with regard to an article which appeared in the July issue of…
Autoflash Styled "the inevitable replacement for the sparking plug", the Autoflash convector is a Swiss product which looks for all the…
Chinese F2 driver Guanyu Zhou will move up to Alfa Romeo next season
A few days after Christmas I had the pleasure of talking to Jacky Ickx for a book I’m writing about the history of Carl Haas and Newman/Haas Racing. Thirty years…
In MotoGP, no race is any more important than another. They all carry 25 points for the win. But from here on in, every race of the 2012 championship is…
Zoom-and-slump Lewis Hamilton is in exalted company. Fellow multiple world champions Juan Fangio, Jim Clark, Jack Brabham, Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, Nigel Mansell and Michael Schumacher all suffered post-title ‘depression’.…