An original road test taken from the Motor Sport archives, April 1951 By Bill Boddy Factfile Production:1948-54 Power: 160bhp 0-60mph: 9sec Max speed: 120mph The car that began the Jaguar…

In beautiful if rather chilly weather, white clouds flecking a clear blue sky and casting shadows on the sun-lit Sussex hills in the background, practice passed off smoothly for the…

SIXTEEN CYLINDERS AND EIGHT MILES A GALLON You may think that elephants are found in Africa and India but those dealt with in this series have come from Coventry, Milan,…

Pat Moss and Ann Wisdom We have praised Pat Moss and Ann Wisdom before but their recent epic drive in the Liége-Rome-Liége Rally placed them not only in the forefront…

Hello! magazine devoted an astonishing 19 pages and its cover to the 70th birthday party of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, justified as this fancy-dress celebration was one of the most…

The annual Brooklands Society dinner and prize presentation is to be held in the Chequered Flag Room of the Brooklands Museum on November 13. Guest speaker will be Simon Taylor. The…

Concluding Owen John's 1925 diary, there was his Christmas journey described in the last instalment, over wintry roads, in a new Lanchester 21. This reminded him of his very first…

D-type win at Laguna Seca . . . Martin Morris added another notch to his D-type's historic belt (the first D-type to win a race, the 1954 Reims 12-hour) at…

The 'Girls in F1' story last month was very interesting. Somehow! never expected them to shine in Grands Prix, But Madame Junek did the 1927 German GP, and was the…

The British Motor Corporation is naturally anxious to perpetuate the Mini-Cooper S victory in the Monte Carlo Rally. With the European Saloon Car Championship in mind they have introduced a…

"'The Motor' Road Tests, 1963 Series." 240 pp. 11 1/2 in. x 8 1/8 in. Soft covers. (Temple Press Books Ltd., 42, Russell Square, London, W.C.1. 15s.) In contrast to the book…

When I realised that The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale (Fourth Estate, 1997, ISBN: 1-85702-360-9) was a very full and capable biography of Betty Carstairs, the well-known motor-boat…