It would be somewhat misleading to suggest that veteran and even vintage cars were all easy starters. Indeed, in the early days, what was known as the starting-up procedure could…

We were able to gain experience of the Riley Two-Point-Six over a distance of 600 miles. Future motoring historians, when your Editor is advertising bar a vintage bath-chair, will no…

In the Grand Manner "Panhard and Levassor since the 'nineties' of the last century have been names to conjure with, and few cars throughout the whole of the Motor Industry…

Something rather exciting for Brooklands enthusiasts—Grand Prix Models have brought out a cast-metal kit for making a model of Count Zborowski's Chitty-Bang-Bang I. It has good detail, including the outside…

One of Louis Coatalen's great interests was motor racing and when he became Chief Engineer of the STD organisation he was able to indulge this whim to the full, perhaps…

The link between Mercedes and Brooklands goes a good deal further back than the firm’s acquisition of the circuit In view of the extent to which the Mercedes-Benz World has…

To report the motor race at Southport in 1936 (pictured) I was without a car until I hired one locally, but it ran so badly I promptly returned it. The…

In the past economy runs, in which the results depended on fuel consumption, were part of the competition scene. Fuel tanks were sealed and consumption checked at the end of…

Nigel Orlebar, who died aged 87 in September, joined the VSCC in 1936. His mother had competed in pre-WWI hillclimbs in a Sizaire-Naudin. While still at school, Nigel bought a GN…

By Ted Simon. 280 pp. 8 3/4 in. x 5 1/2 in. (Cassell & Co. Ltd., 35, Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4SJ. £2.85) This is the intimate story of…

The second Vintage SCC race meeting of 1981, counting towards the Motor Sport Brooklands Memorial Trophy Contest, will be held at Donington Park on May 10th, a Sunday, although Sunday…

Having had a "Fiat Easter", I spent Whitsun, or the Spring Bank Holiday, driving an Alfa Romeo. Re-acquaintance with the Milan make was pleasing because, although the version used on…