Sam Hewitt

116 years young

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd April 2019

The photo attached is courtesy of Sunbeam stalwart Geoff Morris, and it shows Edwin Cook with his 1903 BSA motorcycle fitted with a 2HP Minerva engine. The machine is now in Geoff Morris’s ownership, and is ridden on many Sunbeam MCC Pioneer Runs. Julie Diplock, Sunbeam MCC Read more Letters, Opinion, News and Views in…
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At the pub gate?

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd April 2019

An interesting article in your last issue – the photo on page 23 caught my eye. In the picture at the cottage gate, I noticed there was a shovel above the lady’s head.Could this perhaps be a pub called the Malt Shovel? Maybe near Selly Oak? Richard Wilkinson, Ditton, Kent Read more Letters, Opinion, News and…
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A resting Dougie?

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd April 2019

While looking at the website, www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax, I thought I would enter the registration numbers obtained from photographs of my late father’s old bikes. The only one recognised, but untaxed for many years, is PFC 811, a Douglas MK5 first registered in June 1950 in the County Borough council of Oxfordshire. Born November 1932, my father…
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The DMW network

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Sam Hewitt

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30th March 2019

I have been reading with interest the article by Pete Kelly on the Villiers 2T and saw the picture, in the February edition, of Brian Tilke on his DMW Dolomite II De Luxe. I inherited my dad’s 1954 DMW P200 about five years ago and spent two years restoring it. The bikes are very rare and…
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Remembering dear old James…

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Sam Hewitt

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30th March 2019

If we could turn back time to our teenage years, would we? Mike Hornegold gave it a try! I wonder if you would like to include my account of an old boy’s dream, or is it a mere folly? As, no doubt, many of you of a certain age will identify with my experience! In…
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Not just a Flash in the pan

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Sam Hewitt

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30th March 2019

Martin Spicer’s life with his BSA Golden Flash not only spans 55 years, but also involved it going halfway around the world with him… My story starts in 1948 when I was born in South London. The year before, my mum and dad went on their honeymoon to Hastings riding their tandem bicycle, so when…
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Meriden’s best

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Sam Hewitt

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27th March 2019

Having just picked up the latest OBM, I was somewhat taken aback to see what I thought was a picture of my first ‘big bike’ on page 6. My Tiger (where are you now WGH 882M?) served me well, and for a short while mine even had crash-bars as per the bike shown in The…
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Dread not the Bamburgh Run!

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd March 2019

Making its debut at this year’s Bamburgh Run, held in the beautiful village of Etal in Northumberland, is the Vintage Motorcycle Club’s iconic Dreadnought. Regular readers of Old Bike Mart will know of the Dreadnought’s history, of how it was built by Harold ‘Oily’ Kerslake in 1903 and how it covered something in the region…
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Mecum’s record breaker

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd March 2019

As part of the 235 bikes that had been part of the MC Collection in Sweden that were sold at the Mecum auction in Las Vegas back in January, this ‘Big Tank’ Crocker sold for a frankly amazing $704,000! Yes, folks, that’s over half a million quid! I think we can safely say that the…
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Museum Live!

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd March 2019

Another date for your diary, as the National Motorcycle Museum has released the date for its annual Museum Live event, which is Saturday, October 26 this year. As in previous years, the museum will have free entry for the day, with not only the museum’s exhibits being free to view, but with the added bonus…
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