We have long become used to most car manufacturers offering an automatic transmission option and it is no longer considered a stigma for experienced drivers to buy such cars; even…

Crystal Palace claims first car raceA claim that Britain's very first motor race was held in Glasgow in September 1901, which I quoted as a possibility in Motor Sport in…

Continued from the April issue  We left the young Flying Officer X standing-by at Thetford aerodrome until 4 a.m. because there had been a report that zeppelins were over England…

Heatwave Shelsley The thunderstorm moved away and VSCC weather prevailed for its Shelsley Walsh hillclimb and at Mallory Park the next day. On the way to the historic MAC hill…

Dr Alan Sutton's Malvernia-Santler, which is now on show at Cardiff's Industrial & Maritime Museum, is claimed to be the earliest surviving car used in Britain, which may well cause…

Cut Motor Taxes In a country which seems to be sinking into the financial mire, its citizens subject to an ever increasing cost of living and even its essential postal…

"The French GP, Europe's most important race, had always been run'on temporary road circuits - until Montlhery in 1925. Bill Boddy takes up the banked track's story Despite the Italian…

At a time when the new Daimler Double-Six is very much in the news and a new Daimler history has recently been published, I have come upon some more Daimler…

A look-back to the 1920s (Continued from the October, 1982 issue)  The period just following the unrest caused by the war was an interesting one for those excited by the motoring prospects that…

It is an indication of the risks incurred by the older breed of test-pilots that in his "Adventure with Fate". which we reviewed last month, Harald Penrose, the former Westland…

The small but keen Trojan OC holds the Northern Trojan Rally at the British Commercial Vehicle Museum at Leyland, Lancashire on June 14. The cover of its current magazine reproduces the old…

Arising out of a suggestion of mine published many years ago, that someone with an appropriate veteran car might like to drive it over the route followed by the Hon…