Sir, My motoring background goes back 40 years and includes several years of competition driving; older readers may even recall my "Cars I have owned" article in MOTOR SPORT, March…

Pre-War Sports Car Series The Motor Racing Legends series of races was the focus of attention for Pre-War Sports Cars. Roger Saul's sublime Alfa Romeo P3 was peerless at Donington…

What's in a name? Sir, I very much enjoyed reading the article about the Honda RA300 (July issue). I was just 12 years old at the time of the Italian…

Motor racing and research go hand in hand. Looking right back to the earliest years and you will find examples of manufacturers using motorsport to develop ideas. Perhaps one of…

Mid-Surrey A.C. and V.S.C.C. Grand Cup Trial This famous trial, in its austerity guise, was confined to hills around Pirbright, after starting from a puzzled village in that area. Michael…

The Sunbeam S.T.D. Register's Annual Rally and Driving tests at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, will take place on October 9th. Entry forms from the Hon. Registrar, Carmel, Wood Lane. Fleet, Hants.

Sir, The article under the above heading by "M.G.D." contained two inaccuracies and made one notable omission. The opening race at the Clubman's Championship meeting, variously described by your contributor…

 The World's Racing Cars and Sports Cars  by Douglas Armstrong. 208 pp. 5 in. by 7-5/8 in. (Macdonald & Co. (Publishers), Ltd., 16, Maddox Street, London, W.1.  15s.) This landscape…

A section devoted to old-car matters VSCC Silverstone driving tests (December 2nd) So many cars were seen going towards Silverstone that we thought a race meeting was imminent. Actually, the…

Memorials are erected in memory of statesmen, politicians, Sherlock Holmes and rightly, to deceased racing drivers. I have stood respectfully before a few. In 1922 in the French GP at…

Miscellany.—The 1½-seater streamlined Singer Nine raced at Brooklands by F. W. Carr and others came to light in Berkshire recently, and has found a new owner. The Sky Fame Museum…

At a roadside filling station just outside Nairobi, a car pulls up at the pumps and out clambers a burly figure in singlet and shorts, asking the African attendant to…