Last month in a stop-press report of the MAC/VSCC Shelsley Walsh hill-climb, which precluded personal proof reading, I wrote of Rowley's 1913 5.6-litre Schneider, describing it correctly as a Th.…

In our recent reference to the fate of the racing Leyland-Thomas No 2 during the war, we questioned whether the front-wheel brakes fitted to it after its racing days in…

Courage of their convictions.— Over thirty years ago Citroen went over to front-wheel-drive for big-output production and have never since departed from it. Front-wheel-drive has been in the headlines lately…

As a further Silver Jubilee tribute, Meccano of Liverpool have produced a Dinky miniature of the Austin London taxicab, finished in Jubilee livery, as driven by HRH Prince Charles in…

"More Morgan —A Pictorial History of the Morgan Sports Car" by Gregory Houston Bowden. 223 pp. 9 3/4 in. 6 1/2 in. (Wilton House Gentry Ltd., Wilton House, Hobart Place,…

Having recalled recently the careers of some well-known British racing drivers, the time is overdue to include Freddie Dixon. Born in 1892, Frederick William Dixon had already deservedly achieved fame…

The Locke Kings of Brooklands, Weybridge By JSL Pulford Brooklands Museum, £6.70, ISBN: 0306-1248 This is a book which everyone who has any interest in Brooklands Track cannot afford to…

It is good news that the late Anthony Blight's book Georges Boesch and the Invincible Talbot has been republished. One item in the 1970 Grenville/Motor Sport edition puzzled me. Blight…

The V6 Ford Zodiac Abbott-bodied estate car WE CANNOT all drive exotic super-fast glued-to-the-road motor cars. Indeed, in these high-priced days many people have to make one vehicle fulfil many…

C G Grey, when editor of The Aeroplane, observed that humbug is the essence of politics, except when politics become imbecile, and that of the two he preferred humbug; but…

"Automobile Design: Great Designers And Their Work." Edited by Ronald Barker and Anthony Harding. 374 pp. 10 in. x 6 1/4 in. (David & Charles, South Devon House, Newton Abbot,…

MY good friend "Bunny" Tubbs has a not inconsiderable bee in his bonnet. In saying that, I am referring to a line of thought he has been letting off at…