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The Lansdowne Classic series boasts the National Motorcycle Museum among its supporters (alongside The Classic MotorCycle). This year, the Lansdowne ‘crew’ had a weekend off from the hurly burly of the race paddock and had their marquee at the show. Fred Walmsley, Stuart Tongue, Richard Adams and Mike Farrell were on duty, joined by –…

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Leopoldo Tartarini and Giorgio Monetti at start of the round-the-world trip. Leopoldo Tartarini was the founder of Italjet, the small but highly innovative Italian manufacturer he established in 1960. During its 44 years of existence, Italjet developed more than 150 different imaginatively designed motorcycle and scooter models, most of them personally created by Tartarini, in…

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The 1929 Gnome et Rhone, owned by Tim Moore, heads up the line of motorcycles. With our classic vehicle interests, we are, perhaps, often guilty of preaching to the converted, in that many of our shows and events attract the already interested, while those with a casual, or even passing, interest don’t necessarily feel the…

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A temporary army camp was established by the Brooklands Clubhouse. In the foreground is Peter Birket’s Triumph Model H. Great War 100 was billed as commemorating Brooklands’ role in the First World War. In 1915, the Surrey aerodrome and racetrack had only been open a few years before Britain was at war and the location’s…

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Three generations of the Bowen family – Noah and Sarah Fernon plus Graham and Emma Bowen. The Triumph is a 1965 T120C. Paul Cann’s rare-to-the-UK 1968 Suzuki T305 scooped the Best In Show accolade at the recent Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show at Stafford. The 305cc T305 Raider was produced for US markets, and…

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