A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters VSCC SILVERSTONE RACE MEETING (April 11) ALTHOUGH practice was delayed by fog, rating at this first VSCC Silverstone Meeting of 1970 took place in…

" The Autocar ' Road-Tests—Spring 1965." 80 pp., 11 1/2 in. x 8 3/8 in., soft covers. (Iillfe and Son Itd., Dorset House, Stamford Street, London, S.E.1.   6s  6d.) In this…

Chris Staniland Test Pilot, Racing Driver and Racing Motorcyclist You surely remember C S Staniland? He made a very considerable impact on the motor racing scene in the 1920s and…

Protests over the results of races or rallies are nasty things! Necessary perhaps but nasty nevertheless. They can cause ill-feeling and friction, delay the publication of results, and cast doubts…

Just over a fortnight after the Herefordshire Trial, on March 2, the VSCC trialists were trying their luck and good fortune on the hills of Derbyshire. Enthusiasm was again the…

The life and inventions of George Constantinesco, to whom we referred in Motor Sport some time back, is the subject of Data Files 2 from M W Models of 4…

Sir Alistair Miller, Mr Brooklands! If you had to choose, who would you call "Mr Brooklands"? Parry Thomas, perhaps, who lived there and achieved many great successes with the Leylands…

Apart from the restored and resuscitated veteran cars which regale the Brighton Road each November, it is nice to recall vehicles which were a sensation before the Emancipation re-enactment was…

Not long after reviewing a recent book about Reliant Robins, etc, came Sutton Publishing's More Microcars, by Tony Marshall. Not a cyclecar history, of which I already have Mike Worthington-Williams'…

I will try to avoid making too much of the rather crude joke that the Mass must have been so-named to appeal to those of the Catholic faith, or that…

by Heon Stevenson. GT Foulis, £12.99. It seems you can get books published on any subject these days. This contains nothing more than 85 reproductions of advertisements from the 1950s…

"Grand Prix Ferrari" by Anthony Pritchard. 382 pp. 9 2/5 in. x 6 in. (Robert Hale & Co., 63 Old Brampton Road, London SW7. £5.50). Pritchard is a prolific writer…