I smiled as I watched my two-year-old granddaughter Elsie playing in the sand. With the help of her mum, she was trying to make sandcastles, patiently filling her little red plastic bucket before tipping it
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Nightmare journeys with a BIG bit on the side
Towards the end of the 1950s I decided that I was fed up of riding my bike to meetings, stripping it down for racing and then (hopefully) riding it back home, so I acquired a
Read moreRemembering TT rider Keith Draper
Before he passed away on August 27, my father Keith Draper asked me to send a little bit about him to OBM. He was born in Dartford, Kent, on May 5, 1929, and his first
Read moreHappy days remembered
After unearthing these photos of his father Roy, taken in the very early 1950s, Mr M Pitson from Guildford, Surrey, has sent them to OBM for our readers to enjoy. Back then, with petrol rationing
Read moreCould one of those Pembrokeshire Police Ariel Leaders be our own?
A ‘mystery’ 1961 Mortons Archive photo that we published recently, showing police Ariel Leaders escorting a column of German tanks at a location that several readers later identified as Pembroke, brought this interesting reply:- During
Read moreA covered bike in Germany
Hello to the editorial team, and it was very interesting to read about all the covered bikes built in the UK in the last issue. In 1934 the Victoria factory in Nurnberg (1886-1958) built a
Read moreSchmoozing the Met for LE Velo orders
I thoroughly enjoyed Triumph Tiger Cub and Terrier expert Mike Estall’s fascinating letter ‘Police evaluation Terriers recalled’ (OBM September). With typical attention to detail, Mike describes the Metropolitan Police’s evaluation in summer 1955 of competing
Read moreAriel FH Sports outfit memories evoked
The recent OBM article about the Ariel FH Sports took me back to my days as an apprentice compositor at McCorquodales (Printers) in Euston. I left school at the age of 15 on Thursday, July
Read moreHappy Dayton Albatross holiday
I’ve managed to rustle up all the old photos I have of my Villiers 2T-engined Dayton Albatross scooter from the 1960s. I know there’s not much of the scooter to see, because the purpose was
Read moreWho’s the mystery man on the G45?
I wonder if someone could throw some light on the mystery Matchless G45 rider in the accompanying photo which came with the paperwork when I bought the machine. Can anyone identify the period, the event,
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