I regret that a slip of the pen, when writing the piece headed "Photo Finish" which appeared last month, caused me to say that in the first Brooklands dead-heat Jarrott…

RS —The faster Fords by Jeremy Walton, 245pp. 10" x 71/4". (Motor Racing Publications, Unit 6, Pilton Estate, 46 Pitlake, Croydon CRO 3RY. £14.95.) When you want information about Ford…

I was able the other day, after long experience of an Alfa-6, to spend a few days driving the latest Alfa Romeo Alfetta Gold Cloverleaf, courtesy of Huntsworth Garages, Marylebone.…

Tony Brooks Wins the Goodwood Trophy at 88.19 m.p.h. THE last big B.A.R.C. Goodwood Meeting of the year was held on one of the few fine days, September 8th. Unfortunately,…

by Stanley Sedgwick. BT Batsford, £23.99. I enjoyed this book very much when it was published in 1976. It was largely about his Bentleys, as you would expect from a…

An Editorial in a contemporary about Denis Jenkinson's one-time Giro di Hampshire, in the carefree 1950s, using my road-test cars in the dead of night, recalls some memories. The gullwing…

75 years ago  I have been reminded that it was 75 years ago this month that an important trial took place, which is usually regarded as having set the seal…

Watching Johnty Williamson driving the venerable 1923 10 1/2-litre V12 Delage in the Itala Trophy scratch race at this year's first VSCC Silverstone Meeting, when it took the Lanchester Trophy,…

For some unaccountable reason I am apt to think of Calcott, Calthorpe, Clufey and Clyno as the four "Cs" of the vintage light-car era I have had some association with…

More motoring legislation It is indisputable that the motor car and those who use it are more hemmed about by bureaucratic legislation than any other section of the community. It Might…

(JAN. 4th/5th) This normally-annual event wasn't run last year because of the petrol-panic but was resumed last month in spite of the return of the 50 m.p.h. speed limit, which…