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Scottish Show approaches… Star guests at the show will be father and son Scots racing champions Bill and Ian Simpson. A wide selection of trade stands will also be offering motorcycling parts and merchandise for sale and there will be both private motorcycle exhibitors and club stands. Gates open 9am both days, pre-booked one-day tickets…

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Brian Martin Peter Stirland (246cc Greeves) was runner-up and Alex Wright (246cc Greeves s/c) relegating Langston to the sidecar class runner’s-up spot. Class awards were 150cc: R Weston (James), 250cc: Eric Adcock (Dot), 350cc: Don Smith (252cc Greeves) and Sammy Miller took the 500cc award. Having launched a 60mm vibration resistant speedometer at last November’s…

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Eric Fernihough Having started racing in the 1920s, during the early 1930s Eric established a garage at premises on the Byfleet Road near Brooklands. In 1935 he built a normally aspirated 996cc ohv V-twin Brough Superior JAP for racing and record attempts. Soon he was lapping at over 113mph and on July 23, 1935, took…

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With the serious business dealt with in the afternoon, the evening was given over to the Awards evening and a chance to socialise. With a large number of trophies to dispense, it looked as if it could be a long night, but a small number of obviously talented riders cleared a lot of the silverware.…

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Ivan Wicksteed getting down to it, on the blown Speed Twin in 1938 Today, 75 years later, Brooklands Museum and Ace Cafe London are coming together at the historic Weybridge, Surrey venue to organise a special ‘Ton-Up Day’ on June 23. Special displays will highlight how on March 12, 1938, Eric Fernihough riding a 996cc…

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The Classic MotorCycle April issue on sale now! This month's contents includes: • Editor's intro • News    • Classic off-road and racing show • Subscribe and save • Bonhams Paris sale         • Letters  • Men who mattered (Roland Pike)           • Terry Stone interview • Classic advert     • For various budgets (café racers) Each successive generation…

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Canon Basil Davies Ixion found the model with its single cylinder engine based on the existing 499cc Rudge, but with its stroke increased to 132mm, initially intimidating. Then he discovered it started easily, refused to ‘gum up’ even when over oiled and it glided away from a standing start ‘like a Rolls-Royce car.’ Like Rudge,…

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Jack Webb and his 500 Hagon-JAP replica This year, the opportunity for riders, mechanics, officials or just keen spectators past and present, to get together and celebrate a common bond of enthusiasm for track racing, happened at the National Museum of Speedway, within Paradise Wildlidfe Park, a zoo run by former rider Pete Sampson. Among…

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Freddie at work (on right) During the Second World War Freddie was an apprentice in the Naval Dockyard in Portsmouth and became a Home Guard despatch rider. When peace returned he started racing grass-track and by 1947 he had signed for Wembley and rode exclusively for the Lions until 1956. He won the World Championship…

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James Robinson talks Broughs… He starts with a look at a pair of Brough Superiors on the Bonhams stand, an SS100 and SS80. The 1926 SS100 is powered by a JAP V-Twin and is in superb condition, with an auction estimate of between £160-200,000 — it will be auctioned at the Stafford Show in April.…

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