If you sent away for a Douglas Sales Catalogue in 1922 this is what you would have received from the Bristol motorcycle manufacturers.With the cover being part of the delivery envelope the world would know that you were interested in purchasing a Douglas machine. This sales catalogue highlights the advancements in a quickly changing world […]
1922 Douglas Sales Catalogue. Read More »
It has been quite a while since we put up some old photographs of motorcycling, mainly because as the years pass they become harder and harder to find. Some photos have only just survived the ravages of time, but then some of these would be over 100 years, so to have survived at all is
Within 10 years Francis Barnett had grown from producing 2 models to 7 models for 1935. Interesting bird names seemed to accompany their machines, names like Seagull 42 and 43, Plover 40 and 41, and the Black Hawk E36. Added to this was the Cruiser and the Stag 44. Except for the Stag the rest
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By the 1930s the only 2 motorcycle manufacturers left in America were Indian or Harley Davidson, you were either with one or the other, but very few were with both. Choice would have been made very difficult in that design and colour options from both manufacturers were similar so probably a contributing factor in purchase
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For most of us that are involved in older motorcycles pre 1960, we are getting older and as the years go by we wonder where the time has gone. Most of us regards the ‘60s and ‘70s as days ‘just gone by’ and certainly not 50 to 60 years ago. It is this early time
A Salute To The Original Vintage Motorcyclist. Read More »
