A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters Old Vauxhalls at Luton (Sept. 5th) It used to be Vauxhalls at Old Luton, car manufacture comparatively new and the town noted for straw…

The Editor Meets Again That Well-Known 1907 42 hp Renault I first met "Agatha — That Scarlet Woman" 50 years ago. That is what she was called when the Mills…

"Autocourse-1973-74." Edited by Mike Kettlewell. 199 pp. (Hayinarket Publishing Ltd., Craven House, 34, Fouberes Place, London, W1A 2HG. £4.25.) The Autocourse record of 1973 motor racing comes in the well-liked…

GET Eyston OBE, MC, was known as ‘The Record Man’, but deserves to be remembered also for his track racing George Edward Thomas Eyston was born in 1897 at the…

As editor I wish to apologise to historical archivists and those with long memories who noticed some inaccurate and odd items in the piece published last month about former MCC…

Cars feature, as might be expected, in "Royal Riviera" by Charles Graves. But, alas, he gets muddled about the Monte Carlo Rally, which he describes as a race, and over…

As most aviation followers will know, when the de Havilland Aircraft Co was one of the premier aeroplane builders the name Francis E N St Barbe was very well known.…

"He can be regarded as the leader of the latest type of racing-motorist created in the atmosphere of the track" - The Autocar writing about Percy Lambery in 1913. "Because…

The R-R heritage trust has done it again! After producing 25 detailed and excellent books about the history of both RollsRoyce motor cars and its legendary aero-engines in its Historical…

"Maserati Road Cars" by Richard Crump and Rob de la Rive Box. 229 pp., 11" x 10". (Osprey Publishing Ltd., 12-14 Long Acre, London WC2E 9LP. £14.95). What this large…

Streatham Laboratories, 197, Wandsworth High Street, London. S.W.18, manufacture an effective but inexpensive fire extinguisher. This Cyea 13 comprises a flexible, transparent nylon bottle from which CCL4 can be directed…

There are some very interesting motoring references in "Mr Home, pronounced Hume" (the title is a skit on an unfavourable review one of his plays received) by William Douglas Home…