No. 33-The Bean. The Bean Car Club may not thank me for calling the Bean a "forgotten make" but I am sure they will know what I mean! It was…

War year All this interest in the papers and on TV about Britain's entry into the war fifty years ago gives us an excuse for recalling a little of what motoring…

Accuracy Accuracy is a vital element in motor racing and also desirable in everyday driving. In school days, avid enthusiasm for motor racing prevailing, we were thrilled to read of…

Poore makes fastest time and wins Staniland Trophy Willis and Collins break class records Prescott was blessed with fine weather on the occasion of its National Meeting on September 10th.…

The Story of the "Spider" and other G.N. Matters After the Gold Cup Meeting at Oulton Park, I met Basil Davenport, creator of the immortal "Spider" which held the Shelsley Walsh Hill-Climb…

Just before the First World War all manner of new makes were competing in the market for "motors-for-the-millions" which had grown out of the cyclecar boom at the 1912 Motorcycle…

Memories of a fast, successful, but frequently over-enthusiastic regular at the Brooklands Track, and his red Type 35 Bugatti ​ With the proximity of the Brooklands Centenary celebrations in June it…

The little Datsun coupé, with its 1,171-c.c. push-rod, five-bearing 69 (SAE) b.h.p. four-cylinder engine and distinctly "fast-back" body-styling which makes it less of a 2+2 and more of a two-seater…

The dismal prospect of petrol prices rising to more than £1 a gallon, and even the faint threat of rationing in the air, turns thoughts to small cars, which if…

I have been reading High Driver's book on that keen Rolls-Royce fan, Lord Northcliffe. One of his suggestions in 1913 was the R-R should fit self-starters to the 40/50. It…

"The engine responds to wide throttle openings with an outraged gasp and a lurch forward; it's like pinching the Queen's bum." — Shaun Campbell, in a road-test report on the…

The Sheffield Simplex is such a rare car that I became confused when confronted with the information that such a car has returned to its birthplace, Sheffield. I wrongly assumed…