The Organ of Motor and Motor Cycle Sport. That was this magazine’s subtitle at its inception, when it began life a century ago in July 1924. Above that phrase the actual masthead said The Brooklands Gazette. At the time virtually all high-profile motor sport in Britain took place at the Surrey autodrome, that Colosseum of speed which had been so advanced in 1907 but which was gradually fossilising. The magazine, though, soon looked further afield.
Who started it, and why? We don’t know. No record has survived of any backers, or what Oscar Seyd, the first editor, hoped to achieve. In
