10 FEBRUARY 1939, page 38

A British Speciality The Four-speed Gear-box Is...

third and top, and provided a pause is made between the gears changing can be done quietly and without double-declutch- ing, but it is not a quick change unless you do double-......

La Versanne It Is Generally A Matter Of Luck Whether

you come back from your drive to the Rhone and, presumably, the Riviera, with memories of what you see from the road near La Versanne. If you are above the clouds and they are......

A Modern " Family " Car There Seems To Be

no way of avoiding the use of that peculiar word family in describing a comfortable car of moderate power, price and performance. I still cannot see what qualities it implies......

Another Winter Oil I Have Begun To Test A New

engine oil called Ovoline, made by Brett's Oil and Grease Company, Limited, of Durham, for which winter " fluidity " is claimed as well as the usual advantages of modern......

Mobile Police Reports What New Thing Do We Learn From

the conflicting reports on the success of the Courtesy Cops in Lancashire and London? Sir Philip Game, Commissioner of Police, says he is disappointed with the results which......

Motoring

The Bressey Plan Rejected Although the full results of the Bressey scheme for solving the problem of Greater London traffic were ngt to be achieved until the next generation, it......

The 12 Wolseley It Is A Very Likeable Sort Of

car. Its 1,500 c.c. four-cylinder engine has overhead valves, a downdraft carburettor, and the steel-skirted pistons which are, I understand, a Wolseley speciality. Slow......

Another World If The Sun Is Shining And Those Clouds

are in the right place you are transported to anothm- world. The mountain side at your feet disappears as into a bottomless gulf, and you look from a solitary peak, as it seems,......