Sam Hewitt

National Motorcycle Museum fail in Culture Recovery Fund bid

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Sam Hewitt

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5th November 2020

The National Motorcycle Museum has announced that their application for an urgent grant through the Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage has failed. The Museum applied for a grant from the fund which was established by government to provide funding support to organisations across the heritage ecosystem that were financially sustainable before COVID-19. Rev your engines,…
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Everybody’s gone surfing…

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd November 2020

This is a photo I took at a park in Horsham, Sussex on Whit Monday, 1951 of grasstrack racing where the machines were towing surfboard riders. As I have never seen this activity either before or since, I wondered whether Mortons Archive contains any similar records and whether it still takes place at grasstrack meetings…
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Model recognition time

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd November 2020

This is a picture of my late mum and dad on their motorcycle – registration number EGX 724, taken in the early to mid Forties. I recently found it in a box of old photos, and I was wondering if any of your readers could identify the make of bike or indeed knew of its…
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Addled about Adlers

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd November 2020

Thanks for publishing my piece and photos of horizontal-engined motorcycles in the August edition of OBM. The letter from George Simpson in Angus with the photo of a racerised water-cooled Adler MB250 taken back in the Sixties, prompted these photos of my 1955 Adler RS250 water-cooled factory racer. Adlers have always been a favourite of…
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Two-stroke trigarium

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Sam Hewitt

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29th October 2020

This was seen at the ever-popular ASI Motor Show which is held at the Autodrome di Varano de’ Melegari (Palma) in Italy each May. Hundreds of classic and vintage machines parade, race and generally show off to the delight of huge crowds of spectators, for whom entry is free. Tony Page Read more Letters, Opinion,…
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Snetterton sidecars in the Sixties

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Sam Hewitt

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27th October 2020

I was just looking through some old negatives, and thought this may be of interest to fans of the Bit on the Side, feature. There are three ‘bits on the side’ here but l am afraid l do not remember who they are. The photo was taken in the early Sixties at Snetterton. I am…
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Café Racer International available now!

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Sam Hewitt

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27th October 2020

Whilst much has been written about the café racer scene, both historically and otherwise, the trend for retro styling and bike shed builds continues to this day, with machines that command an unmistakeable presence and remain the embodiment of passion and innovation. The days may have passed when metal, grease, oil, leathers and attitude bucked…
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A pillion seat of desire?

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Sam Hewitt

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24th October 2020

Neil Cairns’ article in the September edition, The Autumn of a 1946 BSA C11, brought back some happy memories because my first bike was also a C11 and had an interesting tale attached to its purchase. It was back in 1956 and the bike was a 1950 model with tele forks and solid rear end.…
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Three wheels on my Popemobile

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd October 2020

I am a subscriber to Real Classic magazine and do not usually get to see Old Bike Mart. However, recently a friend showed me an article from your August edition by Mick Payne about sidecars, as he saw that I was mentioned in the article and it concerned my sidecar outfit, which has always been…
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Motorcycles – the end of an era at Ellesmere Street

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Sam Hewitt

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21st October 2020

An association with Manchester spanning over 100 years will come to an end this September when Dot Motorcycles Ltd ceases trading from its 1912 premises in Ellesmere Street. We delve into Mortons’ Archive to give some idea of the surprising variety of road and sporting machinery – all quite Devoid of Trouble – that the…
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