The Editor encounters a hot-rod Last September PF Payne made fastest sports-car time of the day at the Gosport Speed Trials in his Ford, clocking 15.02 sec for the ss quarter-mile. During December…

Having mentioned elsewhere that Mr. Minchin was seriously ill, we are deeply sorry to learn, as we close for press, that he has died, in S. Africa, where he went…

Although motoring historians make play with the variants of the Talbot name, which has been applied to widely differing cars, we must try to look at the present car bearing this…

"Lunardi", by Leslie Gardner. 191 pp. 8 3/4 in by 5 1/2 in. (Airlife Publishing Ltd, 7 St. John's Hill, Shrewsbury, Salop. £9.95) This is the story of the pioneer…

Last month it was Sunbeams at Silverstone. This time it's A7s at Beaulieu. If I were on one of the weekly motor papers I might report something like this: "The…

(July 11th) It was nice to be back among the Coatalen Sunbeams, Roesch Talbots and the Darracqs, at Wolverhampton, where Register members meet ex-employees of the old Sunbeam Company, take…

A section devoted to old-car matters V.S.C.C. Beaulieu rally (May 27th) Rain did its best to wash out this annual event but vintage cars are not easily set afloat and…

David Rae, formerly Field Service Manager for Dunlop's, has joined Vintage Tyre Supples as their Sales Manager. The ex-John Smythe Type 23 Brescia Bugatti, which apparently hit a telegraph pole at Brooklands…

Two Fine Specimens The two fine specimens referred to were tamed by Mr. Gerald Albertini and consist of his famous tulipwood Hispano-Suiza and a just-post-vintage straight-eight Isotta-Fraschini. The Hispano-Suiza is…

At the Lea-Francis OC's Stanford Hall Rally, the 13th in the series, over 40 of these cars assembled, together with two bicycles and a MAG-engined motorcycle combination of the same…

A High-Efficiency 2-litre Saloon Possessing Outstanding Qualities of Performance, Comfort and Control. Driving an Epicurean Pleasure in this Near-Perfect Car for the Connoisseur. Under wintry conditions at November we realised a…

Getting it right I always become impatient when people get the sizes of the W.O. Bentleys muddled. It seems so easy - 3, 4 ½, 6 ½, and 4-litre. So…