The Vintage SCC has started its Jubilee Year well, in the racing sense, with what is thought to have been a record entry of 194 cars, although Edwardians were not…

Among the surviving cyclecars which have come out of obscurity in recent times, none can be more rare or more ugly, as its present keeper Bill Wallbank willingly accepts, than…

Farman - the Hispano-Suiza rival Not all that much seems to have been known about the Farman cars, especially in comparison with the respect accorded, absolutely rightly, to the Hispano-Suiza,…

In more recent years the stars of Brooklands were Sir Henry Birkin in the blower 4 1/2 Bentley, Oliver Bertram in the Barnato-Hassan, John Cobb in the lap-record Napier-Railton and…

"YOU'RE not going off without putting some water in ?" The voice was that of a driver who had just brought the Press Sunbeam-Talbot down from Coventry to Devonshire House for…

Little is known about the Guinness brothers, but they were both fine racing drivers. Sir Algernon Guinness, Bt, achieved much for Darracq; in 1906, he covered a kilometre at Ostend…

It is with greatest sadness and regret that we record the passing, at the age of 64, of the well known and respected Roesch Talbot enthusiast, Anthony Blight. His respect…

Strange case of mistaken identity? In response to WB's theory that the 1922 Bentley in the Donington Collection is not the car used by JF Duff for the 1922 "Double-Twelve"…

Not so much cars in books this time, as some reflections about cars in the fine TV production of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited — The Sacred and Profane Memories of…

Decauville cars date back to 1898. First, from the works at Corbeil, Seine-et-Oise, emerged a sort of four-wheeled Bollee, originally called a Geudon. More conventional cars followed and on the…

by Kevin Desmond. 256p1s. 11.1/4" x 8.1/4". (Conway Maritime Press Ltd, 24 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4 8DR. £19.95) What a very welcome publication this is, covering as it…

On his way home from VSCC Loton Park a reader saw an old notice on the wall of a building in a Shropshire town (identity concealed, to prevent a rush…