Galleries
Straight from the plate: The 1951 ACU National rally
3 February 2012
After a decade’s absence, the ACU National rally reappeared for 1951, attracting an impressive 1100 strong entry. Riders came from all around the British Isles to converge on Billing Aquadrome, near Northampton, where a varied programme of events and entertainments was staged.
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Carole Nash Classic Bike Guide Winter Show 2011
10 January 2012.
The winter blues were well and truly kicked into touch at the first major event of the classic bike show season. Launched for the very first time and held at Newark Showground over the weekend of January 7-8 – The Carole Nash Classic Bike Guide Winter Show proved an enormous success. With 10,000 visitors through the gates, classic bikes galore and hundreds of trade stalls and dealers, the brand new show was the first of what will now become an annual event... and goes to prove just how strong the classic biking movement is.
Straight from the plate: The Belgian GP, Spa Francorchamps 1933
5 January 2012.
Norton’s superstar quartet – Stanley Woods, Tim Hunt, Jimmies Simpson and Guthrie – bagged the top two places in both the 500cc and 350cc classes of the 1933 Belgian GP, although the results don’t really give a true picture...
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Straight from the plate: Lancashire Grand National, 1956
1 December 2011.
Such was BSA’s pleasure with the firm’s dominant performance at the 1956 Lancashire Grand National, at Cuerden Park near Preston, the men from Small Heath took a full page advert in Motor Cycling.
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Straight from the plate - The 1925 Sidecar TT
4 November 2011.
Run immediately after the Lightweight race, apparently, according to Motor Cycling of June 24, 1925: “The organisation works perfectly and Tucker, last year’s winner, pushes off his Norton just as Prentice on a P and P, the last of the lightweight riders, crosses the finishing line.”
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Straight from the plate: The 1928 Cardiff-Leicester-Cardiff trial
6 October 2011.
The second Cardiff-Leicester-Cardiff Trial, organised by the Cardiff Motorcycle and Car Club, started on January 27, 1928, at 8pm, from the Drill Hall, Dumfries Place, Cardiff.
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