Those who have seen on television the classic Bathurst saloon-car races in Australia will welcome No 6 in the year-by-year series of books from MRP of Croydon. Bathurst 1987/88 was…

We have felt for a long time that it would be interesting to establish which are the leading cars in a number of representative engine eaparity or price classes by…

Next month Batsford promise us the long-awaited "Sports Car Pocketbook," a book on veteran and vintage motorcycles and a translation of the life of Fangio from the book by Olivier…

Another anniversary The good motoring life has been punctuated just lately with anniversaries, which, indeed, are convenient things, which can he manipulated, unlike Jubilees, to fit circumstances. There is Daimlier's…

"The Lea-Francis Story" By Barrie Price. 144 pp 10 in. x 7 1/2 in. B.T. Batsford Ltd., 4. Fitzhardinge Street. London. W1H 0AH £5.50. There have now been so many one-make books that few gaps…

Another Motorists' Burden Those who have had occasion recently to renew their driving licence will have noticed a new burden which the motorist is expected to bear. We refer to…

From "Swans Reflecing Elephants — My early Years" by Edward James (Weidenfeld 8, Nicholson, 1982. edited by George Melly) we learn that the great British eccentric, who lived at the…

Very entertaining is a booklet issued by the British Road Federation, of 4a, Bloomsbury Square, W.C.1. entitled "Follow The Signposts." It tells of what happened to an American tourist in…

VSCC Curborough On the cold but dry afternoon on May 5 the VSCC held its annual speedtrials at the Shenstone & DCC's Curborough course near Lichfield. More a continuous driving…

The always ambitious JCC held a 1000-mile race for stripped sports cars at Brooklands in 1932, replacing its former Double-12 race. Advertised as ‘England’s Biggest Race’, attracting nine British teams…

I have heard that the Jockey Club is investigating riders who are deemed to have deliberately held back a hone. Rather curious, surely, that we never heard such complaints at…

A few items of motoring interest occur in "Terence Rattigan — The Man and His Work" by Michael Darlow and Gillian Hodson (Quartet Books, 1979). The great playwright's grandfather, Sir William…