For a concise but entirely adequate account of the dramatic career of Raymond Mays’s V16 BRM venture with advanced racing cars, BRM V16s - How Britain’s auto makers built a…

The very spacious Renault 20TL, that I used as my tender-car on last year's Brighton Veteran Car Run was well-liked by those who encountered it and although the brief week…

Build Your Own Sports Car For As Little As £250, by Ron Champion. Haynes, £14.99. It is fitting that Haynes should publish this book, because John Haynes wrote a book…

The 8th Annual Reunion of Brooklands drivers, flyers and riders organised by the Brooklands Society was held at the Track on Sunday, June 27th. Following on the success of last…

The motor racing world and the Bugatti fraternity in particular will mourn the loss of another driver who was prominent in the sport before the war, when amateurs mixed it…

The new Junior Austin-Healey proves an excellent small sports car. A maximum speed of 80 m.p.h. allied to notable economy of petrol and good all-round handling qualities. AFTER neglecting the…

"Fairey Aircraft since 1915" by H. A. Taylor. 450 pp. 8 7/10 in. x 5 1/5 in. (Putnam & Co. Ltd., 9 Bow Street, London, WC2E 7AL. £6.50). This is…

A reader, N.G. Allingham, OBE, of Emmer Green, has kindly contributed the following passages from "Nellie— Letters from Africa" by Elspeth Huxley: "Motor cars were all the rage then, and…

THE Bugatti OC founded the Prescott hill-climb just before the war and the tradition of the Vintage SCC borrowing the course for its annual up-hill speed event also dates to…

Post Budget Blues Post-Budget Blues for many, but not necessarily pale blue, and hopefully not red. . . . From the car-owner's viewpoint it might have been worse. The so-called…

Jaguar Cars is extending its former one-year guarantee on all Jaguars and Daimlers to a three-year, 60,000-mile warranty. They claim to be the first major UK car manufacturer to take…

by Lord Brabazon of Tara, GBE, MC, PC. 227 pp, 83/4 in by 51/2 in. (William Heinemann Ltd, 99 Great Russell Street, London, WC1. 25s) This is the long-promised autobiography of Lord Brabazon of…