"Climax in Coventry" by Walter Hassan and Graham Robson. 158 pp. 8 3/4 in. x 6 in. (Motor Racing Publications Ltd., 56, Fitzjames Avenue, Croydon, Surrey, CRO 5DD. £5.25.) This…

ELVA AT EPSOM The Elva Press-party was a disaster. Not for the assembled journalists, for they had a good lunch in the slightly-decayed dining room of the R.A.C. Country Club…

Pace-Noting The Vintage Sports-Car Club held another interesting sprint between heavy showers at Colerne on Jun 4, timing the cars over a standing-start quarter-mile and kilometre with a speed trap…

From time to time you have looked for a proper four-seater car that will do 60 mph and 60 mpg. Have you considered the Suzuki three-cylinder one-litre car? Here in…

News is to hand, possibly, of the ex-Hornsted 3-litre Cottin-et-Desgouttes mentioned in Motor Sport recently. This car, which ran ineffectually at Brooklands in 1925, its best lap at only 69.85 m.p.h.,…

Recalling how the 1½-litre Merced-Benz Dominated the 1939 Tripoli Grand Prix   Not unnaturally by 1939 Italy had grown tired of Germany winning the Tripoli Grand Prix. In 1935 Caracciola…

Gilles Villeneuve, The life of the legendary racing driver by Gerald Donaldson, 352pp. 9 1/2" x 6". (Motor Racing Publications, Unit 6, The Pilton Estate, 46 Pitlake, Croydon CR0 3RY.…

THE annual speed hill-climb of the Hants & Berks M.C. is held in delightful country not far from Reading, at Neil W. Gardiner's charming estate, where the drive has a…

This time, thanks to a reader, Mr. J. H. Dunn of Weybridge, we are able to quote a rather luridly written passage from "The Log of the Maken", by Ian…

The Aero-Engined CC, of which I was once told I was president, seems to have died without trace. A pity! But VSCC racing continues to be enlivened by a goodly…

It is good to hear of the return to the town of its origin of the only surviving 50 hp Sheffield-Simplex, which Lord Riverdale restored some years ago and with…

A 1913 25/35 Brixia-Züst For those Motor Sport readers who cannot claim a readership-span of nearly thirty years I should explain, before embarking on the thirty-ninth article in this series,…