Following his tour of Lincolnshire in a 14/45 hp Rover in the early part of 1925, Owen John, whose diaries we have been studying, got back to the topic of…

A reader has kindly drawn my attention to an interesting reference in "The General Strike" by Christopher Farman (Panther Books, 1934) to how Major Segrave was allocated to meet the…

In pre-WW1 days works Rolls-Royces performed well in some important competitions - in the 1914 Alpine Trials , winning a Spanish GP and in 1911 a single-seater officially exceeding 101mph.…

Not exactly forgotten perhaps — certainly not by me, because my first (£5) car was an ABC, even if, with its oil-pump inoperative, it only lasted three days before a…

Endurance runs Runs, more or less non-stop, of long distance or duration, have always been an admirable means of proving the durability and reliability (not quite the same thing) of…

Our oldest motoring organisation, the Motor Cycling Club, founded in 1901, as the early De Dion Bouton engine incorporated in its badge reminds us, still contrives, in spite of increasing…

A Section Devoted to Old Car Matters FIRST Cassandra of the Daily Mirror and now Nancy Spain in the B.B.C. "Woman's Hour"—both lauding the old cars. As far as we…

Since two recent books have been mildly snide about the LMB split-axle independent front suspension which Leslie M Ballamy marketed in the 1930s, we took the opportunity to discuss this…

Britain's Motor Industry — The First Hundred Years, by Nick Baldwin, Anders Clausager, and Jonathan Wood (Nick Georgano, Ed). Haynes, £24.99. To mark the first one hundred years of the…

by Pierre Fisson (188 pp, 12s 6d, Putnam and Co Ltd, 42, Great Putnam Street, WC). We wrote some time ago, when reviewing another book, that perhaps a great motor racing novel…

There are times, rather too many of them, when what should be a good motor race settles down to become processional, so that the less-avid onlookers tend to become bored…

The 1100cc Alta two-seater which was raced at Le Mans and in the Ulster IT by J L Ford and M H Baumer in 1932 turned up at a recent…