Letters

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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I’m hoping for readers’ help. In 1960, I bought a BSA A7 Shooting Star and later that year my fiancée and I were married, on July 23, 1960, in Chester. Following the wedding reception, we set off on our honeymoon to Minehead, Somerset, on the A7 Shooting Star, registration number YTC 843, pictured. Later this…

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Rereading the story about Jackie White (February 2020 issue) and the request for names of other riders in the picture – well, number 52 is definitely Jim Squib, who came from the New Forest area. He was a member of the Southampton speedway team in 1947 (I have individual pictures of the whole team on…

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Following on from my email, published on p16 of the April 2018 edition, I thought I’d share my latest endeavour. To recap: readers may remember my heap of Triumph parts, just like Tim Britton’s ongoing Triumph project. Well, I am pleased to say my pile of junk has now been transformed into a complete motorcycle…

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I would like to extend my compliments to Adam Rear on the Tyrell Smith article in the November 2019 issue of TCM. As a fellow Dubliner greatly interested in the subject of Tyrell, I felt it was well researched and well written. You can’t fit everything in of course, but like so many other top…

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