Car: 1895 tiller-steered, solid-tyred Daimler-engined 3½ hp Panhard-Levassor Driver: The Hon Evelyn Ellis Passenger: F W Simms Route: Micheldever (Start 9.26am) – Basingstoke ( 1hr 24min) – Mapledurwellhatch (1hr 54min;…

Ideals With but three miles free motoring a day (unless you are an unscrupulous business-motorist who has "swung" far more E-coupons than your business needs), British enthusiasts can be excused…

 A reader in Suffolk who owns a Model-T Ford is anxious to acquire pre-1928 issues of the Ford Times, for which he would exchange handbooks forr the 1925 Morris one-ton…

Alfred Woolf, calm and convincing publicity purveyor in this country for Fiat, rang me the other day to remind me that I had not driven a 124ST. Remembering how impressed…

The Octane Race The Octane Race which the leading Petroleum Companies are about to enter is of interest to those who run high-performance cars with high-compression engines. Shell-Mex and BP Ltd were first…

A section devoted to old-car matters The American Car Rally at Beaulieu (September 8th) Occasionally there are attractions in the rally field adjacent to the Montagu Motor Museum, such as…

"Ferrari — Catalogue Raisonne. 1946-1981" Edited by Augusto Costantino, two volumes, 485 pp. 11¼” x 9½“ (Albion Scott Ltd., Bercourt House, York Road, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8 0QP. £69.50) If you…

Many memories have been pouring out about the late, great Denis Jenkinson, that inimitable motoring writer who provided so many race reports for MOTOR SPORT and who was a 'character'…

The Volkswagen Owners' Club of Great Britain held a rally on June 3rd, for which a record entry was obtained. Competing VWs surrounded the Albert Hall on the Sunday morning,…

It is nearly always interesting to winkle out famous personalities from motoring's past and interview them. and I try to do this from time to time. Recently, I made Col.…

"Royal Daimlers" by Brian E. Smith. 455 pp. 9 1/2 in. X 7in. (Transport Bookman Publications Ltd., Syon Pork, Brentford, Middlesex. £10.00.) This is an important addition to one-make histories…