Letters

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 notes are few and far between. The images this month show a Norton outfit (number 92), with some exuberant riding…

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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 motorcycle rims is a practice that, in theory and due to difference in rim design, gives cause for concern and…

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I send my Old Bike Mart papers to my friend in San Diego, US, and he’s replied as follows…

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There have been several recent issues of Old Bike Mart featuring DMW motorcycles.

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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 well-known Midland Sidecar Champion W (Bill) Boddice from Smethwick; very good riding a solo, but on an outfit he was…

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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, indeed, a road race, the most famous of them all! As the Stafford Show celebrated 100 years of the Isle…

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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 be willing to help with identifying the remaining competitors. (As he indeed has, see his letter and photograph on this…

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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! The area has changed though since his visit, as can be seen in the recent photo. Doug Hopkins Read more…

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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, but with data protection nowadays I think I’m going to struggle. Do you have any ideas of what I could…

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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. I would have been there myself in March 1980, racing my 250 Enfield, and remember Peter riding many sprints and…

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