"Motor Sport" Visits Specialist Car Manufacturers in the London Area (Further Illustrations will be found in the Centre Pages) With the Big Five of this country—B.M.C., Ford, Standard, Rootes and…

Profile Publications continue to pour out their unique and very acceptable offerings. The September foursome comprises the late Laurence Pomeroy on the 1914 G.P. Vauxhall, Darell Berthon on the 6 1/2-litre…

Blown Bugattis It is well-known that Ettore Bugatti, as well as being an eccentric in his lifestyle, was eccentric over the design of his cars, resisting independent front suspension, twin-overhead-camshaft…

Continuing to look for references to cars in non-motoring books, in " Child Of the Twenties," by Frances Donaldson (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959), there is passing reference to an A.G., owned…

A VISIT TO TRIPLEX AT KING'S NORTON SAFETY HARNESS is not worn by all motorists but few of us would care to drive behind a plain glass windscreen. Yet it…

"Bodies Beautiful" by John Mclellan. 192 pp. 10 in. x 6 1/2 in. (David & Charles Ltd., South Devon House, Newton, Devon. £5.25). This book is far from the pot-boiler…

"Action Stations— 1: Wartime military airfields of East Anglia 1939-1945" 232 pp, 9" x 6" by Michael JF Bowyer. (Patrick Stephens Ltd., Bar Hill, Ccmtbridge, CB3 8EL £7.95). This is a book…

Ford Gets Jaguar IN AN AGE of takeovers and amalgamations, it has come nevertheless as a profound shock to many enthusiasts that Ford (UK) has acquired Jaguar, a car as…

I HAVE found out a bit more about the two Brescia Bugattis pictured last month on page 1035. They figured in an advertisement in a Brooklands race programme for the…

Although it is splendid period reading, about the First World War and the 1920s, "The Private Diaries Of Rider Haggard — 1914-1925", edited by D. S. Higgins (Cassell, 1980), is…

The 2-litre Marlborough Grand Sport The 2-litre Marlborough Grand Sport was an interesting car that never really happened. By which I mean that good intentions went unrewarded and it seems…

I remember two rather fascinating road test reports in The Autocar in 1920, when the roads were not just free from congestion, but almost devoid of traffic. The tests were…