Vintage & Veteran Motoring

Chris Dugdale - Our Motoring Editor - is a long time Vintage and Veteran motoring enthusiast with a particular fondness for American Cars. He is the proprietor of Vintage Motoring Supplies, specialists in trimming materials, rubber sealing strips and all the associated clips and fastenings. He can be contacted (business hours only please) at 01803 - 665244 or e-mail him with your Vintage motoring enquiries to: Motoring@Age-Net.co.uk

"I first started this vintage motoring section with a short history of the Essex Motor Company". 

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"Since then, I have been able to add a number of other articles and a few reprints and there has been a steady stream of enquiries about the various topics listed below. Owners and past owners are invited to write in with comments and anecdotes. Naturally, we are all interested in anything to do with V & V motoring so please contribute anything which might be helpful or of interest - words and pictures - to others. 

You-Tube Motoring related video clips - HERE

Latest Motoring Articles

• Bedford trucks

• The Nash Metropolitan 1500

• The Sunbeam Alpine

• Off-roading - Rosemary Martin goes off-road

• Volvo - A modern Classic?

• Stutz - a brief overview

• The Austin A40 Devon

• A Day in the Fast Lane - Our editor meets Sir Stirling Moss MBE

• The AC 2 litre Saloon

• The Humber Tickford Convertible

• Motoring Nostalgia - Norman Geddes remembers a time not too long ago

• Norman cycles & motorcycles

• The Daimler Majestic Major

• The Allard

• The Austin A90

• The Can-Am Club

• The Essex

• Rover Gas Turbine Prototype

• MG Roadster

• The Railton

• The Sunbeam

• The Dellow

• Vauxhall

• The Morris in 1936

• The Volvo Amazon

• Summer Scene

• MG Roadster

• Graham-Paige

• Rover 3500

• Handling Petrol (1928)

• The Jensen C-V8

• The Standard 8 D/H Coupe

• Vintage Bus Rally

• Letter from Peter Thomson- 1930 Essex Challenger

• The Autovac System

• Engaging a Chauffeur

• The DKW

• The Model T Ford

• G.W.K. Cyclecar

• Parking - Tips from Jet

• Jowett Javlin