The cars of the STD combine have been fully documented, as have the Roesch Talbots and the Rootes Group Sunbeam Talbots, Alpines and Rapiers, except for the 1930s French Talbots.…

The Editor Looks Back on the Cars he Drove in 1963 "The practice of summing up the year's activities in films, plays, books, and public affairs has become so much…

I am told that I am not usually lost for words. Just as well, as I make my living from them! But when the news broke that Rolls-Royce was likely…

Monte Carlo in Douglas The thoughts of motorcyclists turn in June to the Isle of Man, where the long-established TT races are held over the famous and exacting 37 ¾-mile…

From 1921-1938 the BARC introduced a 120mph badge, the first of which was won by K Lee Guinness in a Sunbeam. Then in 1928 a pendant was added to the…

Jacques Coric of La Boutique in France, who has the Morgan Plus 4 which was once my editorial car, and which I met again at Silverstone in 1993, is hoping…

“The Scuderia Ferrari — Enzo Ferrari Racing with Alfa Romeo — 1929 to 1939" by Luigi Orsini & Franco Zagari. 429 pp. 9" x 11". (Osprey Publishing Ltd., 12-14, Long…

The A.V., which was in production at Teddington from 1919 to 1924, was a cyclecar pure and simple. Ward & Avey Ltd. bought the design from John Carden, who had…

This is a recall of a satisfactory piece of motor racing history, which it is nice to remember when much is in disarray and Damon Hill in trouble. The driver…

The Payne & Bates The makers of the experimental Payne & Bates cars were gas-engine manufacturers of Coventry, a company which evolved from the Godiva Engineering Company of Castle Street.…

It was interesting to discover in the Daily Mail’s TV supplement that a motor racing item was involved, previewing the BBC2 programme History Detectives. A lady had found a photograph…

The 3-litre twin-cam Sunbeam is one of the outstanding vintage models of this illustrious make, for those seeking a sports performance rather than the luxury travel for which these Wolverhampton…