It is said that a woman never forgets her first baby, or a man his first car, both usually with respect. I have told before how my first car, a…

The Second Annual Conference of the Historic Vehicle Clubs' joint Committee organised by The Veteran & Vintage Magazine was held at the R.A.C. under the Chairmanship of Lord Montagu. A.…

Siddeley Special Safari The preface to this study of motoring white-elephantitis was published last month, so I can embark without further palaver to tell of a safari I went on recently…

Jenks wanted a Vice for his workshop. They were in short supply in 1943, but we went off to a farm in Surrey, where an aged gentleman took us to…

There is no denying that for those who appreciate quality-car motoring of the more sedate kind, usually in closed-car comfort, a Rolls-Royce is the ultimate. No other make fascinates to…

"Motor Cycling Road Tests." (48 pp., 8 in. by 11 in., Temple Press, Ltd., Bowling Green Lane, E.C.1, 5s.). This is the sort of high-class publication which can be sold for…

Something for historians to ponder and perhaps debate? In 1971 the Guinness book of Car Facts & Feats gave this as the "motor show" staged by Sir David Salomons at…

One of the better vintage occasions of the year is the VSCC's speed hillclimb at the Bugatti OC's Prescott course. It was certainly near to ideal on August 8, with…

A fine British achievement There have been many high-speed runs and endurance demonstrations but few as convincing as the long-distance test of a Hillman Minx saloon which the Rootes Group staged…

To replace the well-known Zephyr and Zodiac—large cars well suited to Ford's universal V6 power unit but perhaps not as successful as Dagenham had hoped, Ford of Britain introduced the…

Telltale Tails? Invictas will be remembered as well-contrived sports-cars which were first made in 2½-litre form and later as Meadows-engineered high-chassis 3-litre and 4½-litre machines. There were also 1½-litre Blackburne-engined…

Interest in the Land Speed Record, an undertaking in which Britain was then supreme, was at its height during the 1930s. Consequently, when the Sunbeam Motor Company of Wolverhampton, which…