WB's Centenary Journey: Recreating the Historic Midnight Drive to John O'Groats
The spirit of Bill Boddy was surely travelling with our two-man Bentley crew as they sprinted to John O’Groats and back
writer Andrew Frankel
Taken from Motor Sport, November 2013
At midnight on June 27, 1938, a 4¼-litre Derby Bentley eased away from Parliament Square and turned to the north. At its wheel was a 25-year-old lad who was already the editor of Motor Sport and would go on to become the longest-serving contributor to this or, so far as we have been able to ascertain, any other magazine there has been. His name was William Boddy, more usually called Bill but best known simply as WB to the hundreds of thousands who would come to feast on his words over the next 73 years.