by A Gordon Wilson. 173 pp. 9" x 51/2". (Gerald Duckworth & Co, The Old Piano Factory, 43 Gloucester Crescent, London NW1 7DL. £9.95) Written by a son of the…

(June 19th) Nowadays, veteran and vintage vehicles are an attraction at so many carnivals, fetes, traction-engine rallies and what have you that I content myself with reporting on one such…

In the last but one issue of the now-defunct magazine The Automobile two questions of veteran-car identity were posed, which the demise of the journal prevented us from replying to.…

Excellent Acceleration and a Top Speed of 110 m.p.h. for less than £950 THE story of how Standard-Triumph developed the Triumph TR2 sports car from components used in their saloon…

Three-wheeled motor vehicles were known from before the turn of the century. But they are better remembered from the cyclecar era of 1912 to 1922, one reason being that, if…

The present owner of the Beckenham Special, HBP 270 (below), which Keith Salmon used in trials, hillclimbs etc, when it was new, is seeking the pre-war history of the car,…

A photo in a recent issue of the Alvis 12/50 Register’s magazine reminded me of the unfortunate accident to C M Harvey’s car in the 1926 JCC 200-mile race at Brooklands. Alvis…

So well-supported have the VSCC New Year's Day assemblies at The Verzons Hotel near Ledbury been that the organiser, Mark Garfitt, has instituted a similar Sunday Serendipity there. It was…

Road Impressions When I tried the Triumph Stag as a new car, way back in 1970, I was disappointed with several aspects of the car. It has since had time…

A section devoted to old-car matters   Racing car out of retirement (photo feature) The 1912 Coupe de l'Auto  Sunbeam, formerly owned by E. Barrington Haynes, which has been acquired…

When I interviewed Georges Roesch for Motor Sport in 1952, he told me that while preparing to improve the little 8hp Talbot, which became the 10/23, and designing his impressive…

Jack Hill (Reading) Ltd. recently submitted two Fiat cars, a 126L and a 127, to an RAC-observed fuel-consumption test. The Report is detailed as RAC Trial No. 888. The 126L…