Archive Bill Boddy For king and country Memories from the Royal Aircraft Establishment, where WB spent the Second World War When war broke out in 1939, having failed to get Army enrolment because… November 2007 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Seat-belt news Although belting-up is compulsory in most cars, the arguments for this unpopular law to be revoked are legion, the Transport Act, 1981, Part 2 providing for a three-year trial period,… April 1983 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Rumblings, April 2007 Plans for the centenary of Brooklands Track in June are proceeding. On Saturday June 16 cars from before1920 will parade, and on the next day there is to be a… April 2007 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive A pair of unusual power units Another aero-engined special has appeared: Richard Scaldwell’s GN with a 5-litre V8 JAP won its class and the class handicap at Shelsley Walsh last summer (above). I referred recently to… March 2007 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive V-E-V odds & ends, April 1983 The matter of speed-guarantees in vintage times that we raised recently seems to have provoked much interest and we note that in 1921 Edwards & Parry of New Bond Street, W1,… April 1983 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Museum news The Museum of British Road Transport at Coventry has announced a big reduction in admission charges, down to 20p from 75p for each adult, to 10p from 40p for a… April 1983 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive VSCC of Australia From the latest to arrive Newsletter of the VSCC of Australia we learn that this obviously very active Club's dinner was held at an hotel with a Bugatti Lounge and that… April 1983 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive V-E-V miscellany, April 1983, April 1983 The Lennox Herald recently ran a centre-spread of photographs of old-time transport in Dumbarton and district, which included a picture of a postman at Warde Farm in the 1920s, where a… April 1983 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive A chauffeur's memoirs Sixteen years ago I received two school exercise-books - the old sort if you remember, with arithmetical and multiplication tables on the back covers - which contained a long account… July 1978 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Amongst the mags Amongst the what? The magazines, those motor-club publications which are only normally obtainable by joining the clubs that issue them but which so often contain interesting items and are so… April 1983 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive BOC Classic Prescott The Bugatti OC holds many excellent Prescott hill-climbs during the season, the next being the Members’ Summer Meeting on July 2nd, while the penultimate round of the RAC Hill-Climb Championship… July 1978 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive VSCC Oulton Park race meeting The Vintage Sports Car Club’s enjoyable Seaman Trophies Meeting was held under ideal weather conditions on June 17th. The races from which it takes its title are the Richard Seaman Vintage… July 1978 Issue By Bill Boddy