He attended the Glasgow School of Art and soon was contributing articles, drawings, and caricatures to newspapers and magazines including The Light Car.
In August 1950 he founded Autosport magazine which he edited until his death in 1969.
Autosport was significant in being a weekly devoted almost entirely to motorsport, at a time when other publications were monthly or only partly reported competition.
He entered the 1956 Mille Miglia one-thousand-mile road race in an MG Magnette.
[3] "One man's Mille Miglia" is an account of his experiences in the 1957 race.