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The Way of Things
In every sport the way of the governing body is far from being strewn with roses, and in motorcycling sport…
January 1930
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Sporting Cars on the Road
The Black Hawk Stutz By The Editor When we last had an opportunity, about eighteen months ago, of trying out…
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The 11.9 h.p Aston Martin
The latest product of a line of thoroughbreds The name of Aston-Martin has always been one to command respect from…
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Sand racing
A branch of the Sport which is gaining increasing popularity. Ever since the day that speed events on public roads…
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The 2-litre Schneider.
A fast run on a well tried car. There are a great many people who are frightened to buy a…
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A coach-limousine
The Big Car of the Future ? We are still apt to look upon the motor-coach and the private car…
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Modern welding
By C W BRETT (Managing Director of Barimar Ltd.) There was a time, and it was not very long ago,…
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Flying in the gale.
During the height of the stormy weather of last month, one of the new Desoutter air taxis belonging to National…
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Great Racing Marques :- The Darracq.
By E. K. H. KARSLAKE. While in other countries cars are frequently called either by fancy names or by initials,…
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New anti-dazzle and fog device
A correspondent of " Motor Sport" writes A problem associated with road transport which has received, a great deal of…
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Club news, January 1930
Mosely and D. M.C.C. The headquarters are now at the Pack Horse Hotel, Alcester Road, Birmingham, where a club and…
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Accelerometers
What They Indicate and How They Work. By B. G. MANTON, B.Sc., A.M.I.C.E. A speedometer has become a built-in component…
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Self-adjusting brakes
And Other Technical Items Probably no point in the routine attention to a car is more irksome to the average…
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Ah Sing looks at the Exeter.
An intimate but not too-authentic account of the M.C.C.'s Classic Run. The institution which houses me during the hours of…
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Tougher than the "Exeter."
One of the most important events of the year "down under" is the Sydney-to-Melbourne and back trial. In the 1929…
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The ultra-light 'plane
The Possibilities of the Construction of a "Motor-Cycle of the Air" Discussed from the Designer-Manufacturer's Point of View. By C.…
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Slipstreams
By "RUDDER-BAR." "Come-backs." Whether the art of piloting an aeroplane is one which is lost after one has been away…
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This glider business
Revival of interest in fascinating pastime - a club to be formed. Over three thousand qualified sail-plane pilots— dozens of…
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The airman's emergency exit
Although the parachute is one of the earliest of aerial inventions it is only in comparatively recent years that it…
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London Air Park developments.
The facilities for private aircraft owners at the London Air Park, Hanworth, have now been extended to include lock-up hangars,…
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