The first issue of a quarterly News Sheet has been published by the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs, founded last year as a lobby organisation "to uphold the freedom…

Aviation for Everyone — then and now The so-called Great War of 1914/18 removed some of the remoteness, if not the mystique, from the aeroplane. So after it was all…

Morgans have had a long, successful and often excitingly impressive competition history, carried on now in VSCC and other events. They normally used and use V-twin engines. But not always…

Lesney have brought out another miniature in their eagerly awaited "Models of Yesteryear" series. It is No. Y-3, a 1910 Benz limousine, only 3 1/2 in. long, but accurately modelled,…

Some of the most intensive racing ever as a prelude to war  [Continued from September issue. The 1935 Season] THE 1935 season opened with a bereavement for Mercédès-Benz, when Dr.…

I have been asked whether a pre-war Fiat 500 — the once frequently-encountered and beloved "Topolino" Or Mouse — would be eligible for VSCC competition. I do not see why…

Bill Morris wins the Nuffield and Shuttleworth Trophies The Vintage SCC having held the very last meeting at Donington Park before the war, it had to wait until this year…

David Burrows of Norwich sends the accompanying photograph of a 1905 40 hp Mercedes which belonged to WG Christie, his father's closest friend, who died last year. The car was…

THE 50th Anniversary of the Model-Y Ford Eight is to be celebrated at the Ford Sidevalve OC's National Sidevalve Day at Stanford Hall, near Rugby on August 8th. Admission will…

(June 7th) Seldom has the traditional forecourt of the Phoenix Hotel at Hartley Wintney, adjacent to the Great West Road, been so full of vintage machinery as it was on…

A Comparison Earlier this year Ford-of-Britain announced with a powerful build-up a revised edition of the long-lived, popular and successful Escort and Vauxhall Ltd. brought out its new Chevette small-car,…

Regular readers will know that occasionally I like to visit an air-display and a traction-engine rally, to keep a sense of proportion. For anyone with these sentiments living near the…