It is sixty years since the well-known pre-war racing driver Richard Shuttleworth bought his first veteran car, the Panhard-Levassor which caused such a fuss when he drove it on its…

A 1910 Vulcan doctor's coupé has been acquired by the Merseyside Maritime Museum. The building in Upper Villiers Street, Wolverhampton, which once constituted the factory and racing department of the…

These days everything possible is done to make motor racing, one of the World's most dangerous undertakings, as safe as possible. The other day, for instance, a proposed new race…

When V.S.C.C. members gathered at "The Phoenix," Hartley Wintney last month the question could well have been "Where have all the vintage cars gone ?" Because by 9 p.m. the…

The other day I discovered that Basil Howard, who in 1982 contributed the article that made up the "Fragments On Forgotten Makes" on the Invicta, as he had worked for…

The Ford Sidevalve OC is healthily active and it is encouraging to observe how many of these basic Fords have survived, in their various varieties. The current issue of Sidevalve…

What did 'Cupid' Hornsted do at Brooklands, as Captain L G Homsted, after his mercurial drive there before WW1 in the 200hp Blitzen Benz, as described in May? When the…

1972-1990 Panthers. Brooklands Books, £10.95. Brooklands Books latest comes in the form of reproductions of write-ups from the leading motor journals, of which six are from MOTOR SPORT, out of…

Another link with motoring journalism has been lost, so soon after the death of Christopher Jennings, with the passing away of Rodney Walkerley, at the age of 77, last December.…

The Farman was built by the brothers Farman and is thus another car which was the product of racing drivers, because Henri and Maurice Farman took part in those now…

It may seem out of place to refer to a book about model railways in Motor Sport. The fact remains that, apart from motoring being now so costly and hedged…

For the 600-mile, two-day 1914 Isle of Man TT, Louis Coatalen entered three twin-cam 3,295cc Sunbeams, which bore a close resemblance to the previous year's Coupe de L'Auto Peugeots, and…