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Five Vincents in H&H’s National Motorcycle Museum bike sale

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Sam Hewitt

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9th July 2018

Five Vincent motorcycles – two Series C Comets, a Series C Rapide, a Series B HRD Rapide and a rare Series D Black Knight, will be among more than 200 machines being sold in H&H’s biggest National Motorcycle Museum auction to date on Thursday, July 26, a quarter of them being with no reserve. Vincent…
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Lakeland Motor Museum voted Britain’s best classic destination

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Sam Hewitt

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9th July 2018

After being nominated as part of a 30-strong list by Practical Classics magazine readers and clients of Footman James insurance brokers, the Lakeland Motor Museum, complete with its motorcycle displays, was announced as Britain’s Best Classic Destination on May 22. In the museum’s 40th anniversary year, director Les Micklethwaite said: “This is a fantastic accolade…
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UNEARTHED – AN MBE! Michael Worthington-Williams’ services to automotive history recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours awards

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Sam Hewitt

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9th July 2018

Old Bike Mart’s long-term ‘Unearthed’ and ‘Feedback’ writer Michael Worthington-Williams got the surprise of his life when he was informed that he’d been made an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for his lifetime’s service to automotive history. Michael has been ‘in print’ for 63 years, ever since he successfully contributed his first article…
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Pete’s Prattle

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Sam Hewitt

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9th July 2018

There’s only one subject I can possibly write about in this month’s ‘Prattle’ – the wonderful achievement by Michael Worthington-Williams, who has been a much-respected contributor to Old Bike Mart for around a quarter of a century, in being made an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Now 80, Michael, of Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire,…
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JULY 2018

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Sam Hewitt

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9th July 2018

NEWS DIARY DATES READERS’ LETTERS MADE IN JAPAN READERS’ TALES A BIT ON THE SIDE UNEARTHED FEEDBACK TOUR DE CALVADOS BANBURY RUN CLASSIFIED SERVICES GUIDE CLUB CALL The next issue of OBM is on sale on August 4 – order your copy now!
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Another Banbury milestone!

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Sam Hewitt

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5th July 2018

Martin Gegg reports from the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s 70th anniversary Banbury Run. With an entry of 468, the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s 70th Banbury Run, which started from the British Motor Museum on Sunday, June 17, was billed as the largest gathering of veteran and vintage motorcycles in the world. In overcast conditions with…
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French fancies – and a gorgeous Belgian Lady!

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Sam Hewitt

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5th July 2018

Ian Kerr MBE reports on another wonderful Tour du Calvados for pre-1965 classic motorcycles in Normandy, where reminders of the D-Day landings are all around, and in which great bikes, great company and great riding are always assured. If you need an example of a club that puts on events that not only attract local…
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If this jam-packed motorcycle museum doesn’t make you smile, see a doctor!

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Sam Hewitt

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5th July 2018

Nigel Stennett-Cox visits a motorcycle museum whose exhibits are crammed into old railway buildings in North Norfolk. If you appreciate the quirky and different, you’ll love a visit to the Norfolk Motorcycle Museum, for I cannot conceive of another such establishment being quite like it – certainly nowhere else than such a remote and rural…
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Fuel for thought…

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Sam Hewitt

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5th July 2018

Many of us have known that there are various problems that can occur when running a classic vehicle on modern fuel. Dave Manning looks for the facts behind the rumours. When crude oil was first being refined to create kerosene for lamps, back in the 19th century, petroleum was something of a by-product with no…
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A tale of two Golden Arrows

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Sam Hewitt

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5th July 2018

Colin Rider tells the story of two identical Ariel Golden Arrows that were bought simultaneously by brothers Derek and Randal Jessop after trading in the BSA Shooting Star that they had shared You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours, so the saying goes, and never was this more apparent than between my lifelong friend…
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