THE V.S.C.C. AT SILVERSTONE (April 24th) THE first V.S.C.C. Silverstone Race Meeting of the year, which had the expected big entry and double the crowd of keen spectators that were…

The Brooklands Museum Trust has a new idea for raising finance; which revives the thought that the Government or British Heritage or someone should long ago have saved the World's…

Amherst Villiers, that remarkable character who was educated at Oundle and made many important contributions to automotive and aeronautical engineering, died recently, in frail health, at the age of 91.…

Out of a remarkable entry of 418, there were 356 veterans actually on the Veteran Car Run, and of thew the first to arrive in Brighton was A Parkinson's 1899…

The De Dion Bouton can hardly be classed as forgotten - are there not more veterans of this make in the R.A.C. Brighton Run than any other ? - but…

Many special racing cars were built especially for competition at Brooklands. One outstanding example of these was the Halford Special (left), which made its debut in 1926 and won on…

by Klaus-Josef Robfeldt. Haynes Publishing, £75.00. This is a deluxe offering of a much-published subject, this large, sleeve-protected book covering the familiar ground of the two marques' history, production data…

MG chat MG specialist Syd Beer and I had a chit-chat recently about his long association with the Abingdon make. That he drove from Cambridgeshire to mid-Wales and back in…

The World-wide Ford organisation is known to have embarked on a well-nigh all-embracing programme of participation in competition, with the (temporary?) exception of Formula One racing. Motor Sport outlined their…

The Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs, representing the interests of some 300,000 owners of such vehicles, warns again of increasing activity from environmental groups both here and abroad which…

Flying Start, by M H Goodhall. Brooklands Museum, £12.95 post-free. Not much has been written about aviation at Brooklands in book form, so this glossy, well-pictorialised little work about the…

The most exciting news this month is that Lesney have brought out another "Model of Yesteryear." No. Y-10, it is a 1928 36/220 Mercedes-Benz 4-seater complete with twin spare wheels,…