Thanks again to Dennis Prosser in helping to identify riders from Colin Clark’s images from the late ‘40s and early ‘50s. I will include any details that Colin may have added to these pictures, but
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Tag: Letters
Sidecar tyres
Having studied with interest Mick Payne’s article ‘Rubber Side Down’ in the May 2019 OBM I’d just like to add my £2.20 pence worth. Obviously, as you indicate, the practice of fitting car tyres to
Read moreSo Cal society
I send my Old Bike Mart papers to my friend in San Diego, US, and he’s replied as follows…
Read moreHeading downhill
There have been several recent issues of Old Bike Mart featuring DMW motorcycles.
Read moreCadwell feedback
Colin Clark’s pictures of numbers 51 and 16 in the April OBM do not identify with any machines in my programmes for the years 1946 and ’50s at Cadwell. Number 40, however, is of the
Read moreFlyers on the flyer
Just looking at the flyer for the April Stafford Show and would like to know where the picture is, it looks like a mass start of a road race but where? J Hoskison It is,
Read moreMore Fifties Cadwell
Here are some more images taken by Colin Clark at Cadwell in the early 1950s. Thanks to Dennis Prosser we now have names for some of the riders. It would be great if Dennis would
Read moreSetting a milestone
In the April edition article on Ariel side valves there is a picture from 1931 of a painter highlighting a milestone. He obviously did a good job, as it’s still there in London Road, Andover!
Read moreBonnie in hiding
I’m trying to somehow track down my father’s old Triumph Bonneville that he had to sell when he decided to have a family. As far as I can tell, it’s still registered on the road,
Read moreClimbing hills
A letter in the March OBM has prompted me to put pen to paper – Peter Cowlan’s exploits on his 650 Triumph, and it was the photo of Hartland Quay hillclimb that caught my eye.
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