The 12/50 Alvis Register, in conjunction with the Alvis OC, held a very enjoyable Anniversary Day at Brooklands on October 2nd, to which they flatteringly invited me as Guest of…

Some notes on Roger Collings' 19-litre Mercedes-Maybach During the first years of the 1914/18 war the "Hun" zeppelins which bombed Britain were much feared. They could climb higher than our…

Quite by chance we discovered that those engineer's oil-cans associated with railwaymen in the time of steam locomotives but useful in the workshop, with pressure feed from a convenient button,…

As a contribution to 100 years of the motor car, Rod Fitzhugh has written a little 28-page booklet about the relatively unremembered Bridgwater cars and the company that inspired their…

Just what was the exciting aero-engined car the late Lord Donegall had when he was up at Oxford? A Sherlock Holmes addict, Donegall edited the Baker Street Journal, but when,…

Eoin Young rang the other day to question why the finish of a motor race is marked by the display of a chequered flag. An interesting point, but one about…

We have received from Henry Meadows Ltd, who are supplying the Air Ministry with 11-litre, 4-cylinder, Type 4EC engines, rather like their well-known car units, some valuable information about the latter, that is,…

On a journey to Wiltshire last month I spent an interesting afternoon with Mr Freddie Henry, 'talking Austin'. He started an apprenticeship with the Longbridge Company in 1926 and remained…

BBC 2, in The Last Machine, featuring early cinema films, made the point that then accuracy was not important, but that today it is. A view apparently not shared by…

It is recounted above how a popular Brooklands Calthorpe vanished without trace, during the 1930s or in the early war period. It is by no means the only such car to…

M.L.'s article in September on Buckler history prompts the following memories, because I knew Derek Buckler fairly well. I went as his passenger on the MCC Exeter Trials of 1949…

On the recommendation of a reader I have been enjoying "Flanders and Other Fields", by The Baroness de T'Serclaes, M.M. (Harrap, 1964). There are some unexpected references to motoring in…