Diesel developments in deepest Cornwall
Writer Dave Moss uncovers the little known history of a West Country engineer and his even less appreciated achievements on behalf of some much more famous names in the automotive world –
Secrets from beyond the River Tamar
Cornwall’s hall of fame embraces clotted cream to surf, spectacular scenery and a tin-mining history which has bequeathed a legacy of lonely, long defunct engine houses hauntingly scattered across its landscape. Historian Dave Moss looks back at a little...45 years and accounting
The only qualification you need to become an effective PR operative is to have been to agricultural college to be trained as a sheep dog as you spend most of your time pointing journalists in one direction or another –
The day it all began
160 years ago next Sunday was the birth of a man who forever changed the automotive world and whose unexpected death would be fore-ever shrouded in mystery with state, political or business assasination suspected, writes Dave Moss –
The Austin 3 Litre: A remarkable tale of woe
Motoring historian Dave Moss ponders over what happened to the Austin 3 litre and what Rolls-Royce could have wanted with it –
The end & beginning of the British motor industry
Fifty years ago the tentacles of the BLMC leviathan probably reached into your life – sometimes in the most subtle of ways, says Dave Moss –
Was it really 50 years ago?
As we leave 2017 behind, two cars launched 50 years ago in 1967 were unique failures – with much money spent – and little to show, says Dave Moss in the first of two pieces –
Talk of hydrogen power is all hot air, for now
A lack of will by Government means a poor inheritance for our children, says Leigh Robinson –
From lens to bends, Andrew Morland is sharp
You’re never too old to learn and race, as Andrew Morland explains –
1997 and all that 20 years on – Is the wheel turning full circle?
Twenty years ago, two landmark models reached the end of the road but another brand began a new journey, recalls Dave Moss –
Technology takes explorer in new directions
The delights of D-roads explored by John Powell –
Driving the chairman around the bend
The driving gloves are off as founding group member David Miles reveals something about his regular testing co-driver –
The numbers game – looking back to 1997
Twenty years ago new car sales reached a turning points, says Dave Moss –
From Bournemouth to Borneo
Kim Henson describes a motoring adventure a long way from home –
Fifty years of trials and tribulations in Bristol
From bootmaking to motorbikes, an early car and sixties scooters, Douglas of Bristol is a cosmopolitan story, reveals Davd Moss in the first of a two-part feature –
Cheltenham Douglas – Fortune, but not much fame
Wartime designed vehicle gave rise to Cheltenham specialist vehicle company thriving today, reports Dave Moss –
