Errata

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The article on pages 22-25 deals mainly with the career of the 200-h.p. Wolseley Viper at Brooklands but this car gained another success in the 1922 Southend Speed Trials, when A. G. Miller made f.t.d., covering the kilometre course, which included a slight bend, in 34.8 sec., beating the fastest motorcycle by 2 sec., to win two classes. It was said that “the passage of the Viper down the promenade was indeed a spectacle worth witnessing!” Later in the season K. Don drove the car at the 1922 Southsea Speed Trials, flames and smoke issuing from its exhaust stubs as the long exhaust pipes had been removed, but was not placed; although the Viper was normally kept at Brooklands as stated, it was presumably driven on the road to reach these venues; it was demonstrated at the Eastbourne Speed Trials that year but had gearbox trouble. Incidentally, the wire wheels on the Viper were Dunlop, and it ran on Dunlop s.s. tyres. A minor success which should also be recorded was when Miller gave a fully-equipped Morris-Cowley a start of 5½ min. at the 1922 M.C.C. Brooklands Meeting, the Viper still contriving to win easily from scratch, at 101.43 m.p.h. (The exploits of other aero-engined cars are described and illustrated in “The History of Brooklands Motor Course” (368 pp., 10 in. x 7½ in., Grenville, 1957), of which a few copies are still available at the original published price of 50s.—the book runs to over 300,000 words and contains 297 photographic plates.)