Quite why the Alvis Car & Engineering Company of Coventry introduced their innovative frontwheel-drive car in 1928, when they had a highly successful range of very fine normal models, is…

Moffatt (ERA) makes FTD The 73-year-old speed-hill-climb venue was invaded by the VSCC, in the nicest possible way, on July 8th. In practice Bill Summers rolled his 6C Maserati at…

Colin Chapman The Man and His Cars, By Gerard Crombac. PSL, £19.99. This new edition has recollections by his son and two daughters of what living with Colin was like,…

1,250,000 Miles' Development Endows the New 845-c.c. Renault with Many Good Qualities, notably Excellent Handling and Roadholding, Outstanding Performance for its Size, and Economy. Just after Easter we left our rear-engined,…

The B.R.S.C.C. August Bank Holiday International Meeting at Brands Hatch can be counted as highly successful, even if the big race of the day, the 200-mile Guards Trophy, sponsored by Guards…

I read Emma Tennant's memoir Strangers thinking it might include something on David Tennant's Beardmore and a racing `Sascha' Austro-Daimler, or the ownership of Leyland Eights. Not so, and as…

"Its First Gear: The French Automobile Industry to 1914" by James M. Laux. (Liverpool University Press. £10.) On the jacket of his book, and again on the flyleaf, Mr. Laux…

Collector's Guide — Jaguar XJS, by Paul Skilleter. MRP, £14.99. One for Jag enthusiasts to add to a comprehensive list on this marque. All XJS models from the original 5.3litre…

For the purpose of "covering" this year's M.C.C. Exeter Trial and V.S.C.C. Measham Rally Motor Sport used a Ford New Prefect saloon. In it the Editor drove 680 miles, to…

THE TYRE WAR The important subject of tyres in modern motor racing formed the topic of D.S.J.'s article in his "Behind the Grand Prix Scene" series in the April issue…

by W/Cdr "Sandy" Powell. 212 pp, 81/2 in by 51/2 in. (Allan Wingate, Ltd, 12 Beauchamp Place, London, SW3. 15s) This is a book on the popular subject of the test pilot, written to…

How sad that Tom Lightfoot has died, aged 81. A jeweller, he will be known to so many veteran car folk, especially members of the VCC of GB. Tom loved…