No. 23 Hudson-Essex THE Hudson Motor Co. was founded in 1909 by Roscoe B. Jackson, R. D. Chapin and others, financial backing having come from Joseph L. Hudson of the…

"The Batsford Guide to Vintage Cars" by Cecil Clutton, Paul Bird and Anthony Harding. 224 pp. 7 1/2 in. 4 3/4 in. (B. T. Batsford Ltd., 4, Fitzhardinge Street, London,…

WITH the present widespread interest in the historic-car movement it behoves any manufacturer having a worthwhile heritage to maintain examples of some of the products on which present-day fortunes were…

"The Book of The Motor Museum" by Brian Jewell. 112 pp 5½ in x 8 in. Costello, 43, High Street, Tunbridge Wells, TN! 1XL. £7.95). This important little landscape-shaped book…

One of a pair of remarkable 28.3-litre four-cylinder racing Fiats built in 1910/1911, unseen since the 1920s, is being re-constructed  The most exciting vintage-world news is that Duncan Pittaway is…

One of the most interesting entirely new cars at Earls Court last October was the VX 4/90 version of the already vastly improved Vauxhall Victor from Luton. The Vauxhall Motors…

Even if this event is more a gigantic driving-test (even to penalties for touching markers) than the sort of speed trial we used to know, it is fun to drive…

Taking down from the shelves my bound volumes of Motor Sport to indulge in some research, my eyes strayed from the task had embarked on to more interesting items encountered…

No makes of cars are mentioned in "A Heroine In Her Time — A Life of Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan 1879-1967” by Molly Izard (Macmillan, 1969) but there are interesting new aspects of…

"Tiger, Alpine, Rapier — Sporting Cars from the Rootes Group" by Richard Langworth. 175 pp., 10" x 7 1/4" (Osprey Publishing Co. Ltd., 12-14, Long Acre, London, WC2E 9LP. £9.95)…

A car for the sporting bachelor Rootes' Latest Development of the Rapier Reaches High Speeds with Acceleration in Keeping. Girling Disc Brakes on the Front Wheels. For many years the Rootes…

It has been said that only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon-day sun. The sun shone for the VSCC Winter Driving Test Meeting at Enstone aerodrome near…