Away from the racing, Brooklands has played host to a plethora of strange happenings – not least two cases of murder most foul In this Brooklands centenary year it may…

Publication last March, by kind permission of Mrs. Barton, of the first-war cartoon of the La Cigogne Squadron of French flying-aces, has aroused much interest. One correspondent, Mr. Clemons of…

The Minerva is not altogether a forgotten make, especially since Motor Sport wrote up last May a 1930 32/34-h.p. Victor Broome limousine of this make. But the fact remains that less…

The Veteran Car Club's AGM takes place on March 28 at the RAC. It awarded 25 major trophies for last season, a list too long to publish in full, but…

By Cyril Posthumus. 160 pp. 11 3/4 in. 8 1/2in. (The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., Astronaut House, Feltham, Middlesex. £4.95.) This is another coffee-table tome (these days you need a…

"Automobile Year—No. 23," edited by Ami Guichard. 223 pp. 12 5/8 in. x 9 5/8 in. (Edita SA, Lausanne. English Agent, G.T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., 1-5 Portpool Lane, London,…

September 13th, at Thruxton, sees the last of this year's V.S.C.C. race meetings and the final round of the 1969 Motor Sport Brooklands Memorial Trophy Contest. Racing will cover the…

A debt repaid? In 1952 I interviewed the great Talbot designer Georges Roesch, the articles which followed (Motor Sport, November and December 1952) throwing fresh light on his cars and…

Many of the spectators who turn out every November to watch the veterans go by on the Brighton Run probably consider these pre-1905 vehicles to have been crude playthings of…

Not a great deal under this heading this time, but the reference to a No. 14 S-type London omnibus, driven by someone who had handled the old 13-type 'buses in…

The Veteran, vintage and classic-car fields have come a long way since the VCC and VSCC were formed, and the wheels are kept turning by an astonishing number of one-make…

A READER has drawn our attention to the following, from "Max Miller — the Cheeky Chappie" by John M. East (W. H. Allen, 1977):— "Edwardian Brighton owed its new prosperity…