Some makes are more forgotten than others and because the Clyno was a popular car in its day many may still have recollections of it. But its origins, rapid rise…

EVERY year my Proprietor demands this stop-press report of the Show almost before it has opened, and on the day of the B.M.C. luncheon, too. Consequently I am looking at the…

This traditional event, dating from 1939, this year reverted to the 200-mile navigational road-run on the Saturday for cars less suitable for the Sunday trial. Thus, of the 38 entries,…

The well-known Goodwood circuit originated in 1948 on September 18 as an experiment because Brooklands had been ruined by the wartime damage inflicted by military vehicles, and Donington was still…

A reader has asked me to identify two photographs: one is a Coupe de l'Auto Calthorpe with its imposing radiator. The bonnet straps and bolster fuel tank imply a racing…

Very few car builders have competed in as many different motorsport arenas as Sydney Allard. From trials to drag-racing, he did it all. Bill Boddy recalls a true enthusiast Although…

RB Lakin points out that it was he, then Sub Lt Lakin, RN, who owned the IFS Bugatti which Dick Seaman drove at Brooklands in 1936; Leslie Ballamy had entered…

Last month we referred to the vee-twin Hotchkiss engine, in association with some comments about air-cooling. It was an engine destined to give good service in BSA cars made by…

Southeby's invited us up to Elvington Air Museum on May 8 to see what their hand-out described as a "World Land Speed Record attempt" by the 1925 Sunbeam "Tiger" (which…

Those who saw a small model aeroplane flying round and round its pylon at the Model Engineer Exhibition last January, and who watched it take off and land, probably dismissed…

April 23 was a memorable clay at Colerne, where the VSCC assembled all manner of interesting devices, for demos and timed kilometre runs. From conventional bicycles to penny-farthings. fast motorcycles,…

Fairthorpe Cars, by John H Allan. Bookmarque Publishing, £24.99. It is good that the lesser makes among those sports cars which have given enthusiasts pleasure in the past, have books…