Sam Hewitt

The world’s oldest?

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Sam Hewitt

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18th March 2020

My name is Tim Millard and I am the current MD of Millard & Co Ltd, in Guernsey. I wondered if you would be interested to find out about a recent Facebook campaign we started, to find the oldest motorcycle shop in the world. The campaign has currently received about 40,000 views and shares worldwide…
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40th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Show postponed until June 2020

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Sam Hewitt

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17th March 2020

Following the recent announcement from the UK Government, Mortons Events has had to postpone the 40th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Show which was due to be held on April 25-26.
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Comet burial and rebirth

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Sam Hewitt

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16th March 2020

The Vincent Comet in the February 2020 issue prompted me to put pen to paper. In 1968, at the age of 17, I had the good fortune to buy a running Vincent Comet from my brother Ivor for the princely sum of £12 and 10 bob. My Norton Model 50 (the second bike I’d owned,…
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Prewar singles to the fore at H&H

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Sam Hewitt

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13th March 2020

One of the star lots at H&H’s sale at the National Motorcycle Museum on April 7, will include this 1938 Vincent-HRD Meteor, below, which was discovered incomplete in a barn, and subsequently restored over 10 years to its current condition. Specialists Maughan and Sons and Conway Motors have been involved in its rebirth. It has…
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South of England show

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Sam Hewitt

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11th March 2020

Guest of honour at Elk Promotions’ show, at the South of England showground at Ardingly, West Sussex, onMarch 29, will be legendary Triton builder, racer and raconteur Dave Degens. Additionally, the show boasts five indoor halls, with all manner of attractions. If you enter your pre-1980 classic into the show before March 1, then you’ll…
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Pioneer Run’s new destination

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Sam Hewitt

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9th March 2020

The Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club has announced a new destination for the finish of its annual Pioneer Run for some 300 Veteran motorcycles, tricycles, quadricycles and combinations. Starting at Tattenham Corner, Epsom, at around 8am on Sunday, March 22, 2020 the final destination will be Brighton City Airport at Shoreham, where machines will start arriving…
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Celebrating heroic women in motorcycling for International Women’s Day

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Sam Hewitt

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6th March 2020

Forget about motorcycling being a lads’ world. There are – and always have been – plenty of women riding fast and far.
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Raleigh information request

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Sam Hewitt

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5th March 2020

For a number of years I have been researching in the Nottingham Archives for information on Raleigh motorcycles and cars, with a view to writing a book on the subject. As is usual with research, I have come across a number of loose ends, as the archives are by no means complete, and wonder if…
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The wrong man

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Sam Hewitt

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4th March 2020

I’ve just opened the January 2020 edition and went straight to the feature about the 1960 GP season. I’m pretty sure that the picture on page 60 is John Surtees and Alan Shepherd on an AJS, not John Hartle on a Norton. Shepherd actually led Surtees in the race until – I think it was…
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Jack for all trades

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Sam Hewitt

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4th March 2020

Held at Canada Heights in Swanley, Kent, in December, the Jack Thompson Trial is a celebration of diversity. Words and photographs: ALAN TURNER The Talmag Trial has achieved an enviable reputation for evoking the time when big four-stroke singles ruled the roost in postwar mud-plugs. The Jack Thompson Trial has a more liberal approach. There…
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