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Author: Dave Crofts Published by: D W M Crofts, The Paddock, Bell Lane, Weston, Newark, Nottinghamshire NG23 6TW Tel.: 01636 822004 E-mail: [email protected] Also available from: Amazon. Softback, 210 x 295mm (portrait); 118 pages with over 150 pictures and illustrations. ISBN 978-1-326-74957-6 £14.50 including UK postage and packing. When pioneer motorcycle manufacturers are discussed and…

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  Foreword by: John R Nelson MA (Eng.), M.I.Mech.E. Veloce Classic Reprint Series Published by: Veloce Publishing Ltd, Veloce House, Parkway Farm Business Park, Middle Farm Way, Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 3AR Tel: 01305 260068 E-mail: [email protected] www.velocebooks.com Softback, 210 x 250mm (portrait), 160 pages with over160 colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. ISBN…

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Author: Mick Duckworth Published by: Lily Publications Ltd, PO Box 33, Ramsey, Isle of Man, IM99 4LP www.lilypublications.co.uk Fax: +44 (0) 1624 898 446 Hardback, 210 x 205mm (landscape); 96 pages with over 110 photographs and illustrations. ISBN 978-1-911177-09-8. £16. This second volume in the Golden Years series is packed with a rich mixture of…

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  The Story of Phelon & Moore – Revised edition Author: Barry M Jones Published by: Barry M Jones, Unit 2, Rustic Crafts Workshop, Bixley Lane, Beckley, Rye, East Sussex TN31 6TH (First published by Panther Publishing Ltd.) E-mail: [email protected] www.brenelltape.co.uk Softback, 210 x 280mm (portrait) 326 pages with approx. 250 photographs and illustrations. ISBN…

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  Classic Four-Cylinder Bikes Author: Peter Rakestrow Published by: Amberley Publishing, The Hill, Merrywalks, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 4EP Tel: 01453 847823 Email: [email protected] www.amberley-books.com Softback, 165 x 235mm (portrait); 96 pages with approx. 100 photographs. ISBN 978-1-4456-5717-2 £14.99 Honda stunned the motorcycle world in 1969, with the launch of its fabulous four-cylinder CB750. Then Kawasaki…

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Book reviewed by Jonathan Hill Giacomo Agostini is, still, Italy’s most successful and most glamorous motorcycle road racer and, some would argue, the greatest riders of all time. They would have good reason too, when you consider his record of 15 world titles; 123 grand prix victories, 18 Italian Championships, 10 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy…

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    Gary Hocking was born near Newport, South Wales in 1937 but grew up in Southern Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe when his family emigrated in 1947. Nicknamed ‘Sox’ because of his aversion to wearing them, he used his first motorcycle to travel to and from his engineering apprenticeship in the city of Bulawayo,…

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