"Designing Male," by Howard Greer (Robert Hale, 1952), gives a picture of New York, Hollywood, Paris and London during the "gay 'Twenties" and refers to many cars of the stars,…

ONE of the best-Iiked VSCC race meetings is that which takes place at Oulton Park circuit, near Tarporley. This year the date of this Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies Meeting is…

Steaming, the very high-class magazine of the national Traction Engine Club, had an interesting article recently by John Hirons, about the engines owned by the late Jack Wharton, who was…

Very little of motoring moment appears in Kenneth Clark's second -volume of his auto-biography, "The Other Half" (John Murray, 1977), and as Lord Clark writes of his travels one reaches…

We have often proved that if a difficult historical motoring problem arises, the best way of getting an answer to it is to air it in MOTOR SPORT. This has…

Over the weekend ol April 11-12, the Light Car and Edwardian Section of the Vintage Sports Car Club held its annual dinner, which punctuated the annual driving tests in the…

Last year three new American compact cars made their appearance in time to add interest to the Earls Court Show - the Ford Falcon, the Chevrolet Corvair and the Chrysler Valiant. A road-test…

by William Court. 319pp. 11 1/4" x 9 3/4" Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, Northants, NN8 2RQ. £55.00 The long awaited second volume of William Court's Power And Glory, his in-depth…

The roads of the 1920s As autumn approached in 1928, diarist Owen John observed that this seemed the correct time to hold the Motor Show at Olympia, an event which…

This time it is again the Editor's turn to comment under this heading. Apart from obvious spelling and other errors last month the printers, by dropping in an unwanted comma…

Having quoted some contemporary acceleration figures last month for the rather-tame 1924 / '25 Austin 7 sports-model, it may be apposite to remark that whereas that little pointed-tail two-seater was able…

A slice of Talbot lore, I fancy, can be culled from an article by Jack Gilbey on "The Vanished Cab Horses" in that excellent institution "The Field Bedside Book" (Collins,…