Archive Alfa-6 valve gear I have been taken to task by no less an authority than Graham Robson over my suggestion, last month, that the Alfa Romeo vee-six engine has valve gear like that of… April 1983 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Cars in books, April 1983 A reader informs us that there is further reference to the Bugatti racing driver Charles William-Grover and his work for the French resistance movement during WW2 (he died in Sashsarhausen prison… April 1983 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Brooklands news Apart from the annual Brooklands Society Re-Union at the old Track, and last January's VSCC Driving Tests there, we hear that the Alvis 12/50 Register's Alvis Anniversary Day is to… April 1983 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Club news, April 1983 VSCC First Silverstone The Vintage SCC's first 1983 race meeting will be the usual 1908 GP Italia Trophy Meeting, on April 16th, starting traditionally with a High Speed Trial. Once more,… April 1983 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Recalling the 1935 German GP One of the nicer aspects about editing Motor Sport is being on the receiving end of a fairly regular flow of unexpected items of information and history that our thoughtful… August 1978 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive More about Marina Don't let's waste too much time over it, because I dealt with Morris Marina disappointments last May. But, as explained elsewhere, I have been re-sampling the controversial Marina since its… December 1971 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive The Rolls-Royce of rally jackets Just once in a while you come across a really top-class, conscientiously-made product, like those Bardic electric torches I used to recommend because, with their rotary, bonded-rubber switches, etc., they… December 1971 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Migraine According to The Migraine Trust his distressing disease afflicts some 5-million people in this country. We hope that not many of our readers are among them and we ourselves are… December 1971 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive Cars in books, December 1971 "Fighting In Flanders", by E. Alexander Powell (Heinemann, 1914), to which a reader drew our attention, is an interesting example of how a patriotic American, reporting for The New York… December 1971 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive “My Life and Soft Times” By Henry Longhurst. 366 pp. 9 4/5 in. x 6 1/2 in. (Cassell & Co. Ltd., 3, Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4SJ. £3.75.) This is a non-motoring book, which… December 1971 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive “Land Speed Record” By Cyril Posthumus. 256 pp. 9 3/8 in. x 9 1/8 in. (Osprey Publications Ltd. PO Box 25, 707, Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire. £4.00.) No book by Cyril Posthumus, that… December 1971 Issue By Bill Boddy
Archive “Rolls-Royce—The Elegance Continues” By Lawrence Dalton. 264 pp. 9 1/4 in. x 7 1/8 in. (Dalton Watson Ltd., 76, Wardour Street, London W1V 4AN. £5.25.). This remarkable and beautiful book continues Mr. Dalton’s… December 1971 Issue By Bill Boddy