Crystal Palace,(May 30th) Formula Two-Two Heats The domination of Formula Two races by the works Brabham-Hondas is becoming a rule to which there are few exceptions. With a joint fastest…

The annual Vintage SCC race meeting at OuIton Park on June 14th was delayed by three factors, the rain, an accident, and loss of telephonic communication with the marshals' posts. But…

Akela-engined GNs made a big impact on British race tracks, and a few still survive After WW1, the GN was one of the most successful racing cars in its class.…

Not many cars figure in "About Time", the autobiography, up to the commencement of the Second World War, by Penelope Mortimer (Allen Lane, 1979) and, as it is a light-hearted…

The VSCC ran a cold but interesting meeting at Donington on May 7th, sponsored by Pirelli—so it was appropriate that MOTOR SPORT's Editor arrived on Pirelli tyres, although I have…

One of the motoring events that I always particularly enjoyed was the Brighton Run for veteran cars. I first went on this personally in 1936 as passenger on Richard Nashe’s…

In reply to our correspondent Colin Ward (Letters, MOTOR SPORT, October 1987), Harry Edwards, well-known historian of the Morris Register, confirms that registration letters were originally allocated on the population…

After a long wait, the local lending library was able to obtain for us a copy of "Open Cockpit" by John Nesbitt-Dufort, DSC (Speed & Sport Publications, London. 1970-ISBN 85113-140-2),…

Richard Twelvetrees, AMIMech.E., etc.  Capt. Richard Walter Rickard Twelvetrees, who died last year at the age of 96, was Editor of Motor Sport in the mid-vintage years from 1925 until…

John Gordon, widely-read columnist of the Sunday Express, wrote in his "Current Events" feature of September 2nd that 120 m.p.h. on the Mt may not be illegal but by any…

Are re-treads safe? It is said that the RAC is going to lift its ban on re-treaded tyres, so for as the better brands are concerned—but only, it seems, in respect of short…

The front cover of the Jowetteer, magazine of the Jowett CC, recently carried a picture of a sports-car made in S. Africa from flat-twin Bradford parts. complementing an article within…