
DIFFICULT CONDITIONS AT SOUTHPORT.
So bad was the rain on the morning of September 29th that the first part of the programme had to be held over until the afternoon. Fortunately the entry was…
* * A MATTER OF NOMENCLATURE
Sir, Boddy says that the Morris Minor i000 will have to be renamed following the fitting of a larger engine. Not so. For some time, B.M.C. have chosen to misname this vehicle—Nine-Fifty would have been more accurate. Whereas in the past, people like myself have felt that somewhere they have been cheated out of 52 c.c., perhaps they may now have an 86-c.c. bonus. Furthermore if the car is to continue looking exactly the same as the older model, I want the people that I overtake to think that the extra little hit of performance comes from some fiendish modification of my own.
Southport. PETER BROOKS. • 4s *