An Aristocrat Among Small Cars Alec Issigonis' East-West engine location to provide compact yet roomy front-wheel-drive small cars was a significant automobile innovation in 1959, when the first Mini appeared.…

Mention something in this column and you often get a response, even the recent piece "Lady Riders", although it was about a rare 1920s publicity book on Royal Enfield motorcycles.…

An eventful day in the Worcestershire heatwave, on July 3, when the VSCC assailed the famous hill. Roger Collings' great 19-litre 1907/16 Mercedes-Maybach was making its second competition appearance. surrounded…

The Godalming Round Table's Brooklands 60th Anniversary Rally on June 11th can be rated a considerable success. It was nearly a ghastly flop. An excellent assembly of Brooklands cars ranging…

The trend of design At the commencement of another year it is encouraging to discover that some of the past pessimism is dispersing. The flow of oil which we were…

The pointed-tail Allard Special once owned by Ken Hutchison which competed in the 1938 Experts and many other trials, etc, and later was owned by Len Potter and then thought…

I have the greatest of admiration for Lewis Hamilton, but for me there are two types of competitor: racing drivers and Formula 1 drivers. Today’s GP participants, drivers and cars…

Over the Christmas break i was reading The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follet, a fictional spy story, and to my surprise I found I had to read it…

Run off under ideal weather conditions before a crowd small enough to be intimately enthusiastic, the Midland M.E.C. put on some good racing, at times almost impossible to follow on…

In his day the late W J Brunell was a very skilled photographer, working mostly for the yellow-cover journal The Auto (not to be confused with The Autocar) but also…

The Editor Drives the 2200TC and Re-appraises the 3500S A Rover 2000TC proved to be an admirable Editorial car until it was pensioned off in favour of a BMW 2500,…

A Brief Discourse on the Excellence of the 583-c.c. N.S,U. Prinz Although in this country it is considered that the minimum generally acceptable size of car is the ten- or twelve-horsepower…