The name of Campbell is firmly linked with record-breaking on land and water but as Bill Boddy reminds us, Sir Malcolm Campbell was also a prolific and successful driver on…

A useful fuel can Transpress H1, PO Box 22, Harpenden have produced a useful spare petrol can, after consultation with the Home Office, It holds 5-litres, so is ideal for…

Chrysler 300 — America's Most Powerful Car, by Robert Ackerson. Veloce Publishing, £25.00. Veloce provide in this book a useful review of the Chrysler 300 models from 1955 C-300 to…

With APC  Last year Motor Sport road-tested two Saabs, a 900 Turbo-A and a 900 GLS. We praised both of them and I was reminded of what well-made, individualistic cars these…

"A History of the London Taxicab" by G. N. Georgano. 180 pp., 8.1/2 in. x 5.1/4 in. (David & Charles Ltd.. South Devon House, Newton Abbot, Devon. £2.95.) A history…

Richmond Trophy Race Run Under Appalling Weather Conditions but Parnell Still the Master. "Bira" Wins Chichester Trophy. Splendid Driving by Poore and Shawe-Taylor. Dryden and Coldham Fight a Great Duel…

I have no reason to doubt that the new Nissan Micra is an excellent little car. But I have not been able to drive it, because the Motor Industry's insurance…

Mr Keir Helberg is hoping to identify a Talbot 105 which was found in Pennsylvania, USA (in a house which contained a GP Bugatti and a couple of A7s) and…

That long-established contest to which the VSCC admits modern cars (devised by the late Laurence Pomeroy to define, by a series of tests and a high-speed trial, which is the…

The Illustrated History Of Albion Vehicles by Nick Baldwin. 152pp. 11" x 8". (Haynes Publishing Group, Sparkford, Yeovil, Somserset BA22 7JJ. £9.95). This book is devoted largely to commercial vehicles…

Early motorists coping with rear-only brakes feared "the dreaded sideslip". Bill Boddy follows the development of four-wheel braking Brakes on modem-day cars,whether drum, disc/drum or all-disc, some with the reassuring…

by Ian Bamsey. 144pp. 12" x 8½". (GT Foulis & Co, Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 7JJ. £19.95). This book describes in much detail, and illustrates with big photographs, drawings and…