Battle royal Back in 1931 the Light Car Club decided to join others in organising a real long-distance race at Brooklands. But with a difference. The length of the race…

Patience I DEEPLY sympathise with those youthful enthusiasts who were on the threshold of their motoring career when war broke out a year ago, and are now waiting to resume,…

Adenau, Germany, May 27th. THE A.D.A.C. 1,000-kilometre race, run over 44 laps of the famous Nurburgring, is fast developing a character of its own, in as much as it is…

BOOK REVIEWS "British Aviation—The Great War and Armistice", by Harald Penrose. 621 pp., 8 1/5 in. x 5 3/5 in. (Putnam & Co. Ltd, 9, Bow Street, Covent Garden, London,…

A section devoted to old car matters The 1902 Renault For many years now, motor racing historians who are accustomed to regarding Gerald Rose's Record of Motor Racing as an impeccable…

Some notes on the four-wheel-drive, Dunlop-Maxaret-Braked FF and The Interceptor. Luxury cars with 6.3-litre Chrysler V8 engines. My previous association with Jensen Motors of West Bromwich was four years ago,…

Although uncommon today, dead-heats were not unheard of at Brooklands: there had been one at the very first race meeting in 1907, between a Napier and a de Dietrich, and…

At Kidlington, Oxford's pleasant grass Airport, W. S. Shackleton Ltd., the well-known Piccadilly (" Aviation is the Coming Thing ") aeroplane brokers, held a sales-weekend in April. There the displayed…

Bugatti Owner's Club's Prescott Fiftieth Anniversary Celebrations on May 21-22 (supported by Christie's) were a thorough success. The weather behaved, the queues to the hill were the longest ever, and…

GRAND PRIX models of Radlett have released two more metal kits of cars in the Ford GT40 saga. These are the basic P-car, with a wide-ranging set of decals to…

In the March issue I took Griffith Borgeson to task for querying without convincing evidence whether the FWD Alvis of 1925 was a crib of the first FWD Miller racing…

The Vintage SCC has moved front rented premises to its own offices. Its new address is 121, Russell Road, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 5JX. Its telephone number is unchanged—Newbury 4411.