A Happy New Year Apart from wishing our readers the conventional Happy New Year it seems probable that 1959 will be a happy year, particularly for the Motor Industry. With…

After Mr. Padley-Smith had written to Motor Sport to inquire if any of the Foden steam drays once operated by Meux's brewery still exist, a surprisingly large number of correspondents responded,…

Current comparisons between Brooklands and road-racing give rise to the question of how the popularity of the track compared with that of artificial road courses elsewhere in England. Obviously, more…

When I heard that the jockey Richard Dunwoody was to turn to motor racing, which earned him the quip from Julian Wilson, (introducer of the Ascot Week for the BBC,…

LAST year Corgi introduced a miniature of the General Motors' Chevrolet Astro 1, thus bringing into the Mettoy Playcraft range of car miniatures a much-publicised dream car which cannot be…

In March I went down to the Swansea factory of Mettoy, to see on the productionline their new Giant Corgi replica of a 1973 Lotus 72 GP car. Corgi haye…

A motor-racing sidetrack centres around Louis Coatalen. By 1922 he had a fine team of racing cars, in order that his drivers could encompass one of his favourite interests -…

Motoring As It Was - A Look Back to the Roads of the 1920s (Continued from the January issue) In the summer of 1924 Owen John, whose "diary" we are…

A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters The VSCC at Shelsley Walsh (July 8th) :Shelsley-Walsh, near Worcester, is the most historic hill-climb in this country and an excellent course, where the…

One of the good things about the Vintage SCC is that it does not make changes merely for the sake of change. Thus its next race meeting, following the Silverstone…

The Daimler & Lanchester OC, which incorporates the Lanchester LD 10 Register, is making an effort to recruit more members to its already active organisation (Secretary John Ridley, The Manor…

A few more observations are perhaps justified under this heading, used for one of last month's articles, in view of the return by a number of leading makers of high-performance…