Desmodromics revisited Last month we disclosed Griffith Borgeson's skillful defence of Leon Michelat's 1914 GP Delage design as the first to employ effective desmodromic valve-gear (positive valve closing by mechanical…

"Automobile Year, No. 15" Edited by Douglas Armstrong. 268 pp. 12½ in. x 9½ in. (Patrick Stephens Ltd., Brooks House, Upper Thames Street, London, E.C.4,. 75s.) This luxury annual appears…

Renault Formula One Motor Racing Book, by Xavier Chimits and Francis Granet. Dorling Kindersley, £9.99. This is a refreshing breath of fresh air on the F1 scene. It covers every…

A section devoted o old-car matters Fragments on forgotten: No. 34 — The Vinot et Deguingand When Paul Finn, Press Officer of BEN, suggested that I might like to talk…

"The Veteran Car Club — 50 Years Pictorial History". by Elizabeth Nagle and Michael Sedgwick. 176 pp. 11 1/2" X 8". The Veteran Car Club of Great Bruain, essannne Howe, 15 High…

"Aston Martin-1983-1972" by Dudley Gershon, C.Eng., M.I.Mech.E., M.I. Prod.E, A.M.B.I.M., F.I.W.S.P. 136 pp. 8 3/4 in. x 51/2 in. (Oxford Illustrated Press Ltd.) Shelley Close, Headington, Oxford, OX3 8HB. £3.95.)…

It is traditional that the Bentley D.C. has its own class at the Brighton Speed Trials and this year there were several very interesting cars in this class. There were,…

I have been lent by a VSCC member a most interesting book. The Guv'nor, the autobiography of John Howlett, OBE, which I think you should know about. This book, published…

A section devoted to old-car matters "POMEROY" POSTSCRIPT As printing deadlines make it impossible to report the V.S.C.C. Silverstone Meeting which took place on April 22nd in this issue, the alternative…

THE Vintage SCC held its final race-meeting of the year at Tom Wheatcroft's Donington Park circuit on September 14th. There had been VSCC racing at Donington in 1939 and the…

Fine French Vintage When I was of schoolboy age the great Bentley successes at Le Mans naturally caught my imagination, interspersed with the second place by the twin-cam three-litre Sunbeam…

Here is a backwater of motor-racing history which has connotations to both the great WO Bentley and Sir Henry Birkin. The aircraft industry was particularly badly hit by the recession…