The Brooklands Society souvenir book we recommended last month, which commemorates the eightieth anniversary of the Track, is available for £1.50 from the Society administrator at 48 Fortescue Road, Weybridge,…

"The Chain-Drive Frazer Nash," by David Thirlby. 237 pp. 9 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in. (Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., Gulf House, 2, Portman Street, London, W.1.45s) There are…

The article by Peter Hull in the current issue of the Bulletin of the VSCC, on the Ford-powered Montier Specials, in which he refers to their appearance in the 1927…

A very big crowd attended Scotland's first International Motor Race at the Winfield Joint Committee's Charterhall Meeting on October 11. Even bigger crowds are likely to attend the 1953 fixtures of this…

The Vintage sports-car club was formed in 1934 for those owning pre-1931 cars, often of the calibre of 3-litre Bentley, 30/98 Vauxhall and 12/50 Alvis, who thought the design and…

It would be nice to think that the LSR was way ahead of the speeds of the faster aeroplanes. In fact, this is not so, as the table below indicates.…

No. 47: THE BATTEN SPECIAL JAMES BATTEN was demobilised from Malcolm Campbell's Squadron of the RFC at the end of the 1914/18 war, after adventurous times flying Sopwith Pups and…

From Laura Ashley by Anne Sebba (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990) we learn that the famous fashion designer's husband, Sir Bernard, liked fast driving and had a Lotus Elite, reconditioned and…

Although it is well known that “saved-up basic” is the most economical of fuels, eventually we got down to our last little drop. So, in an Austin Seven with over…

The VSCC has a number of New Year's Day gatherings of the right sort of cars, this year's especially notable as the first in which the vintage machinery was legally…

Taking out of the library "The Right Age", by Mary Koutouzow Tolstoy (Macmillan, 1961), to get a break from reading and writing about cars, I had not got beyond page…

Having some time ago commemorated the first running of his Angus-Sanderson with a memorable party, Mike Worthington Williams did it again for the sixtieth birthday of his everyday transport, a…