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Motor for relaxation
THE person who reads MOTOR SPORT wants no prompting when it comes to going on with this motoring. If he…
September 1940
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1½-litre racing from 1935
The second part of an article which commenced in the August issue, wherein is reviewed international 1½-litre racing from 1937-1940…
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"Scuderia Impecuniosa"
[It has long been a private theory of ours that many advantages attach to clubbing together over the matter of…
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Letters from readers, September 1940
Sir, Firstly I would like to congratulate you upon keeping your excellent paper going during these difficult times, having been…
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On Germany's rise to supremacy in motor racing
THERE can be no doubt whatsoever, now that war has come, that Germany participated in International motor racing during the…
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MERCEDES-BENZ versus AUTO-UNION. SOME OF THE GREATEST RACING EVER, AS A PRELUDE TO WAR
MERCEDES-BENZ versus AUTO-UNION. SOME OF THE GREATEST RACING EVER, AS A PRELUDE TO WAR The year 1934 saw the introduction…
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The late Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth
IT is with deep regret that we have to record that R. O. Shuttleworth became a victim of war last…
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Rumblings, September 1940
Patience I DEEPLY sympathise with those youthful enthusiasts who were on the threshold of their motoring career when war broke…
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Things in general
AT strangely regular intervals there is an outburst of professed indignation in Parliament against people accused of using their cars…
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Veteran types: no. XXI
A 1914 T.T. Sunbeam Mention has already been made in MOTOR SPORT of the wonderful collection of old cars at…
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Club news, September 1940
I.M.R.C. The Leinster race will not now be run, on account of the small entry received. W. MIDDLESEX AMATEUR M.C.…
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Vetting and testing a 1939 1½-litre S.S. Jaguar drop-head coupe
Some notes and an unofficial war-time road test by a keen reader THIS is a funny sort of road test,…
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