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Sammy Miller museum latest
Sammy Miller poses with the Waddington family The parts related to a race incident with his father. Humphrey-Battersby Waddington had competed in several TT races during the 1930s and also after the war. During the 1939 Junior TT, H-B Waddington crashed at the bottom of Norton Bray Hill after colliding with Sven Sorensen who was…
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Triumph Ricardo
1922 TT Triumph Ricardo (pdf) Well, there is one man who will be able to say whether or not the 1922 TT-type Riccy turns out to be a delightful super-sports roadster, and he is the 1984/5 Association of Pioneer Motor Cyclists (APMC) President, Ormonde Gurr, of Great Brickhill, Beds. Something of a specialist in four-valve…
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Print correction: Tec Bike Parts
Last issue, in the Tec Bike Parts advert on Classic Bike Guide page 90, we told you all that proprietor George Milburn would be trading on stands 372 and 373, at Stafford, in April. Well, that’s not the case, he’ll actually be showing off his range of classic shock absorbers and all the goodies for Hinckley…
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Frank Farrington
Frank Farrington Writing under the Radco pseudonym, every topic was covered by Frank in the series, from lathework to home painting and plating. His wise words and straightforward advice were soon collated into what has become a standard reference work The Vintage Motorcyclists’ Workshop first published in 1986. Reprinted five times, copies of Frank’s bible…
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AJS 996cc V-twin
1930 AJS 996cc Vee-twin The massive 996cc supercharged AJS twin was certainly handsome, but it was a thorough-going pig to ride. So declares George Rowley, former works racer and trials man for the company. "We were down at Brooklands, passing-out R7 racers, when Bert Collier came over and said: 'You are our Number One, you…
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Road Test: Ariel VB
1951 Ariel VB 598cc I don’t suppose that the few large side-valve singles still being made in the mid-1950s feature on many Christmas present lists. Such machines had abandoned their sporting pretensions while flappers were still dancing the Charleston; and being unashamedly marketed as sidecar tugs in the age of Rock’n’Roll wasn’t likely to set…
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Road Test: Ariel VB
1951 Ariel VB 598cc I don’t suppose that the few large side-valve singles still being made in the mid-1950s feature on many Christmas present lists. Such machines had abandoned their sporting pretensions while flappers were still dancing the Charleston; and being unashamedly marketed as sidecar tugs in the age of Rock’n’Roll wasn’t likely to set…
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Reference: A to Z classic reference: Zanella-Ziejanu
Pair of Zenith Zerettes with Fred Barnes Zanella 1957- Argentina The Zanella brothers left war torn Italy and emigrated to Argentina in the late 1950s where they set up an engineering and associated metal business. By the mid-Fifties they'd begun manufacturing car components and then began looking at the assembly and manufacture of motorcycles. Zanella…
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John Wallace and the Duzmo
John Wallace and the Duzmo (pdf) The programme for the 1922 Olympia Show listed 310 exhibitors of one sort or another, of which no fewer than 94 were displaying complete motor cycles. All the well-known names were there, of course — BSA, Matchless, Norton; but there were shoals of makes whose names are now forgotten…
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Bay Area Clubman show
The BSA Owners’ Club of Northern California (BSAOCNC) put together this amazing all-volunteer show that attracts over 150 pristine classic machines competing for trophies in various classes. This all-indoor show is the largest all-British motorcycle show west of the Mississippi. This year, the 25th Annual Clubman’s Show will be held, as always, at the Santa…
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