Readers who are interested in vintage motorcycles and three-wheelers are reminded that the V.M.C.C.'s most important fixture, the Banbury Run, takes place on June 22nd. This event is confined to…

An Enjoyable Way of Saving Petrol It was fortunate that a Renault 5GTL came up for road-test over the Brooklands Reunion week-end, in view of the panic over petrol supplies.…

From Lesney comes another of those once-so-popular "Matchbox" miniatures, a tiny model of the Renault 5TS, very appropriate in this time of petrol famine. As its makers remark "A charming…

Motoring at Easter may mean frustrations, anxiety and being held up in innumerable traffic tangles for the ordinary driver, but it often represents something a bit special to enthusiasts. It…

The NSU Ro80 A Very Advanced Wankel-Rotary-Engined Front-Drive Saloon from Neckarsulm Which Provides Superb Road-Holding, Comfort, Speed and Safety. There have not been many truly revolutionary cars in all the…

• "Babs" In spite of the controversy caused, Owen Wyn Owen has disinterred the 27-litre Liberty-aero-engined racing car "Babs" from the Pendine grave in which it was buried over 42…

Some recent substantial reading was provided by the Sir Winston Churchill memoirs and biographies, from which a few motoring items emerge. For instance, in The Caged Lion by William Manchester…

Brian Smith, author of that definitive Daimler history and that great study of the Royal Daimlers, kindly sent me a photostat of a booklet called "Hints on Driving", which was…

(July 1st) It must have been back in the 1950s, when my wife was running the STD Register, that I conveived the idea of taking members' Coatalen Sunbeams back to…

By writing-up Bill Lake's splendid 1922 GP Sunbeam in the June issue I have let myself in for some more sorting-out of the Sunbeams, or an attempt to do this,…

Held on June 24th, there was a new aspect to the Brooklands Society's Reunion this year, motorcycles and cars being demonstrated on the Byfleet banking, or rather over about a…

"Mini" by Rob Golding. 208 pp. 9 3/4" x 7 3/4" (Osprey Publishing Ltd., 12-14 Long Acre, London, WC2E 9LP. £6.95.) The Mini, British Motor Corporation's original Morris Mini Minor,…