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Matters of moment, July 1980
The Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation "The Battle of Waterloo may or may not have been won on the playing fields…
The Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation "The Battle of Waterloo may or may not have been won on the playing fields…
I have it fixed in my mind that the Volkswagen Golf Convertible in its one model, fuel-injected, 1,600 cc, UK market guise…
Further light can be shed on the Rolls-Royces referred to in "The Wartime Diaries of an RFC Officer" on pages 1011…
Team Akai with Audi and Vic Elford have issued the following joint statement: "Following a difference of opinion over policy in…
Rondeau's rendezvous Every year, the Le Mans 24 Hours proves something special, whatever the predicament of sportscar racing as a…
Following the hoo-hah in Spain, reported elsewhere, between the Ecclestone club and officialdom, the major sponsors behind Formula One called a…
Today the word replica is grossly over-used and very often mis-used, just as the letters GT (Gran Turismo) are mis-used. In…
The Editor visits Milton Keynes The success story of Volkswagen after the British Army authorities decided to revive production of Dr Porsche's war-vehicle…
The commemoration at the normally now-defunct Croydon Airport on the May Bank Holiday, of Amy Johnson's flight to Australia in her DH…
Manufacturer's Identity Recently the FISA made a new ruling that racing cars should retain the identity of the manufacturer or constructor, and…
The Editor looks at unchanging aspects of the famous hill. The Midland Automobile Club's famous speed hill-climb venue at Shelsley Walsh between…
For many years Enrico Plate drove in "voiturette" racing with various cars, including a 1926 Talbot-Darracq that he modified so much that…
Former World Champion motor-cycle racer and Grand Prix driver Mike Hailwood, fourteen times a Manx TT winner, has been awarded the Segrave…
Last month DSJ reminded us that hand-brakes are no longer required on F1 cars so that on anything less than a level starting-grid drivers…
I have been driving a Vauxhall Astra Hatchback, the German-built car from Luton that rather self-consciously wears the Wyvern badge where…
"Bedford — GM's British Commercial" by Michael Sedgwick. 112 pp. 91/2" tt 61/4" (Dalton Watson Ltd., 76 Wardour Street, London…
"Action Stations— 1: Wartime military airfields of East Anglia 1939-1945" 232 pp, 9" x 6" by Michael JF Bowyer. (Patrick Stephens Ltd.,…
Still on the subject of commercial vehicles, PSL of Bar Hill, Cambridge, have published four more uniform volumes, each measuring…
A fact-packed soft-cover book which even the more expert should find highly informative is "Which? Way To Run Your Car".…
Although we seldom review fiction in these pages, "Cloud Nineteen" (Michael Joseph, 1980, £5.95) by the well-known ex-RAF and now…
Renault – in more ways than one – has had a poor time of it in Formula 1 over the last couple of years. True, Fernando Alonso returned to the…
Mick Doohan raced 500 GPs from 1989 to 1999, during which time the 500 two-strokes evolved from truly malevolent machines to mostly rider-friendly missiles. His debut season, aboard Honda’s vicious…
I am told that proper grown-up journalists do not waste time prognosticating about what may, or may not, happen in the future. Tough. It is harmless, it is vaguely amusing,…
It hardly needs to be said that there is a lot of very intense work going on at Mercedes trying to understand and rectify its porpoising problem. Until that is…