Sam Hewitt
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Muriel’s motorcycle at Stafford
One of the highlight for visitors to the Stafford Show, over April 22-23, will be the opportunity to see ‘The Blue Devil,’ Muriel Hind’s famous V-twin Rex. Having been domiciled on the Isle of Man for decades, featuring in the Murray Museum, the Rex returns to the mainland and will be on the Mortons stand,…
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70+ classics at April auction
Cheffins has more than 70 classic motorcycles coming into the Cambridge Vintage Sale on April 22. Included is a description 1951 Triumph 6T Thunderbird Bonneville Salt Flats Land Speed Racer which holds the national record in the 650cc M-VG Class held at the 2008 International Speed Trials at Bonneville. Other highlights include a lovely 1938…
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TCM’s tribute to legend Surtees
Following the death of John Surtees, we’ll be celebrating the life and achievements of the two and four-wheeled world champion with a special 32-page supplement, free with our next (June) issue. It will draw heavily on the Mortons archive, featuring a plethora of pictures of the great man in action on board the machines upon…
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Silver Hawk sold
The V-four Matchless featured in our last issue, and auctioned by Dee, Atkinson & Harrison at Sledmore House in Yorkshire on March 4, realised a premium inclusive (10% plus VAT) £48,160. The venue’s next auction will be on July 29; submit entries by contacting Andrew Spicer 01377 253151 or [email protected] Read more News and Features…
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Remarkable Vespa auctioned
The oldest known extant Vespa, one of the first series (‘0’) scooters, came up for sale with Dutch online auction site Catawiki. With prototypes one and two gone, this, the third, is the oldest. At the time of going to press, it had been bid to over £123,000! Have a look at www.catawiki.com Read more…
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Ulster Grand Prix appreciation
Thanks for a fantastic article on the Ulster Grand Prix’s formative years by Richard Rosenthal (TCM April). I grew up on the A26 just north of Aldergrove (Belfast International Airport) on what was known as the Long Clady circuit. Being much too young to have witnessed racing there, my late father, himself a motorcycle enthusiast,…
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Classic Archive – Tribute: John Surtees (1934-2017)
Star on two and four wheels, who died on March 10, 2017 Unique’ is an oft-overused word, but that is the only fitting term to describe the achievements of John Surtees, the only man to be world champion in the blue riband category on both two and four wheels. Born on February 11, 1934, in…
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Editor’s Welcome
For no other reason than my own amusement, I’ve been collating a few photographs of some of the motorcycles I’ve been privileged to ride over the years. There are quite a few, and most were memorable for the right reasons, though some of course weren’t quite so pleasant. But what really set me on this…
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May 2017
[su_note note_color=”#c0142b” text_color=”#ffffff”]Current issue: May 2017 – Next issue: June 2017 – On sale: May 5, 2017[/su_note] Archive photograph 6 News 8 Letters 14 BSA A65 Firebird Scrambler 18 Subscribe and save 24 Pioneer Run 26 Ariel KHA 32 Second World War dispatch riders 40 Gnome et Rhone 46 Keith Hickman profile 52 Wanderer V-twin 60 Closer look –…
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Born in the USA
The next edition of The Classic MotorCycle, the May 2017 number, has a cover feature which details BSA’s handsome and unusual BSA A65 Firebird Scrambler. In the 1950s and early 1960s, desert racing was big business in America – and BSA, along with fellow British maker Triumph, was, for the most part, the ‘weapon of…
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