Oh Dear! Department

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TIGHT production schedules not only excluded D.S.J.’s Monaco GP report from last month’s issue (but see page 884 this month) but “put to bed” some pages before proofs had been fully read. Apart from some literals and omitted words it is prudent to say that in the 1936 King’s Cup Race article it was Ruth Fontes, not Footles, who owned a Miles Hawk, that the winning Percival Vega Gull had a single Gipsy Six engine and the Hawk Major flown by Mathew until he taxied it into a ditch at Shoreham belonged to Mrs. Battye. — W.B.