Frank Page (1930 - 9 August 2014) was a motoring journalist. He began his career in 1952 at Garage And Motor Agent magazine, and went on to work for many top motoring publications, reporting on cars, motorbikes and related safety issues. He wrote for

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was fo ...

, and was the motoring editor at

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between 1982 and 1985. He was a contributor and presenter on the BBC's

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programme between 1980 and 1989. A former chairman of the Guild of Motoring Writers (1983–1984), his interests included theatre, motorsport, jazz and golf, the latter of which he played with

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. Frank Page died on Saturday 9 August 2014 from

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, in Herefordshire England, aged 84. He was married for 44 years, and had three children.

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