On this magazine’s centenary may I muse upon one half of the editorial duo who built its reputation postwar; ‘W.B.’ – the renowned William ‘Bill’
Boddy – and his sometime friend/rival ‘D.S.J.’ – Denis ‘Jenks’ Jenkinson.
What a remarkably eccentric duo they were. Jenks’s passion for motor sport in all its forms made his lifestyle almost gratuitously irritating to any conventional materialist. He was a jazz-loving bohemian, a beardie-weirdie – content to ‘live up a tree’ in rural Hampshire when not touring the race circuits of Europe.
Jenks’s initials ‘D.S.J.’ – he neverfor some 40 years. He never considered himself a journalist. He was just an enthusiast observer, eager to share with readers what he had seen and experienced.
