I read a piece in the Daily Mail which seemed an appropriate comment on how very much of the same appearance most of the cars encountered on our roads have…

Some notes on the now defunct P4 models I have wanted for a long time to be like Sherlock Holmes and write a monograph. So I decided to do one about…

Don't get depressed It is a time for being depressed, with violence rife throughout the World and financial gloom apparent in so many spheres of Industry. It all stems from…

SOME OF THE MOST INTENSIVE RACING EVER AS A PRELUDE TO WAR  [Continued from the October 1940 issue. The 1936 Season] EVEN before the New Year, news of German plans…

Paying attention only because the piece was by a well-known motoring writer of long standing, I read recently that, although Rolls-Royce sales are up (even in the ISA, where the…

The Editor talks to Vernon Balls In the nineteen-twenties the names Vernon Balls and Amilcar were synonymous. Mr. Balls sold these popular French sports cars from his well-known premises at…

On the cars in books theme, Peter Blair-Richley has drawn my attention to Norman Lewis's autobiography I Came, I Saw (Picador, 1994). Lewis tells of buying from Arthur Baron a…

It is excellent that the M.C.C continues to hold trials in which ordinary cars can compete with the "specials," up sensible hills like the long, winding climb of Finale Bridge, the…

The Editor tenders his sincere thanks to those readers who responded to his paragraph "Scavenger !" in the March issue and to acknowledge a model-J Duesenberg valve, a commutator (unused)…

Harken to the Herald This issue of Motor Sport contains a detailed and analytical appreciation of the exceedingly promising new Triumph Herald, Britain's challenge to the long-established supremacy of the…

I find it astonishing that, whereas books have been written about so many racing drivers, from those of the pioneer days, through the interim periods, to the present day, nothing…

A section devoted to old-car matters VSCC Driving Tests, Oxford (January 31st) The Vintage SCC has alternated pleasant driving-test venues with some very dreary ones, like the Slough Trading Estate,…