"Autocar Road Tests—Spring 1964." 150 pp. 11 5/8 in. x 8¾ in. Soft covers. (Iliffe Books Limited, Dorset House, Stamford Street, London, S.E.1. 8s. 4d.) The latest of Autocar's road-test…

The Ford Cortina 1600E, new at the Motor Show, can be described as the latest Cortina with the new cross-flow bowl-in-piston Weber-carburetted GT 1,599 c.c. 93 (gross) b.h.p. engine and…

The Mercedes-Benz Club, which seems to enrol almost as many new members every month as the Rolls-Royce EC, and which claims to be the oldest club in the world for…

A Visit to Solihull to Study the Manufacturing Methods Applied to a Popular British Quality Car SINCE we road-tested the Rover 90 (see MOTOR SPORT for September, 1956) and drove…

Royle Cars Ltd have brought out a half-full-size Chummy Austin 7, propelled by an electric motor. One supposes that the kids won't know that the original A7 did not have…

"The Times Survey of the British Motor Industry, 1952." (64 pp. 10½ in. by 13½ in., The Times Publishing Co., Ltd., Printing House Square, E.C.4, 2s. 6d.) Amongst a growing…

(October 21st/22nd) The first Welsh Hill Rally, primarily for 4 x 4 vehicles, took place in May last year, sponsored by Senior Service, who repeated it in September with an…

Engine: Eight cylinders (90 vee), 76.2 x 69.8 min. (2,548 c.c.). Push-rod-operated overhead valves. 8.2 to 1 compression-ratio. 140 b.h.p. at 5,800 r.p.m. Gear ratios : 1st, 10.5 to 1; 2nd, 6.24…

"Autocar Road Tests, Autumn 1962." 112 pp., 11 5/8 in. X 8 3/4 in. Wife Books Limited, Dorset House„S'tamford Street, London, S.E.I. 7s. 6d.) The Autocar has gone, its place taken by Autocar,…

The new owner of the 1934 Olympia Show model Lagonda Rapide Gurney Nutting saloon (registration US 9772) seeks the missing history of the car. which was shipped to the USA…

TT Humbers: a curious case I suppose it will never be known why Humber, makers of top-class, dignified family cars, with war imminent, built a team of sophisticated racing cars…

A reader, Mr. P.J.N. Bussell of Penarth, has sent us details of a journey accomplished by his grandfather, Mr. Eli Evans, in September 1901 in an 8-h.p. Daimler. It may…