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
Read more116 years young
Category: Letters
At the pub gate?
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
Read moreA resting Dougie?
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,
Read moreThe DMW network
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
Read moreMeriden’s best
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
Read moreLighthouse family
Some time ago I read an article about the OK Supreme Lighthouse engine. It had a vertical camshaft on which the cams were fixed at the top and therefore worked horizontally. But there was no
Read moreUnknown in Spain
Re OBM issue 404, the unidentified Villiers engine bike on page 42 appears to be a Panther 197 of 1958-1960 vintage. It looks very like the one I rode, but mine had the 250 Twin fitted
Read moreMore classic Cadwell shots
I enclose two more of Colin Clark’s images. I do not know any details of rider or machines, but the first looks like a Norton International (9), and is marked 1950-1951. The second appears to
Read moreMarking its territory
I promised I’d send you a pic of the ’38 overhead valve Norton that came my way at the weekend: its history is unknown but it’s a local (to me) bike and has a tax
Read moreTinkling the Ivory?
I came across a photo of my dad when he was in the army, sitting on a Calthorpe Ivory (I think), registration DYT187. Looking on the DVLA website, I was surprised to see it still
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