Vintage Veerings

From that entertaining travel book ” You Never Know Till You Get There,” by Henry Longhurst, published by Dent in 1949: “To drive the bigger American cars of 1949 was like attempting the Giant Wurlitzer . . . But I was a convert in the end. I always reckon that the great days of motoring—motoring as an art, that is—died with the passing of the Bentley.” 

Report by the News Chronicle: “A 1924 Morris Cowley beat a 1924 Fiat by 20 yards at a speed of 52 m.p.h. at lbsley race track, Hants. Its owner, Mr. H. H. Jackson, of Fordingbridge, collected his prize—a pint of old ale.”