A very interesting article gleaned from the pages of the 1926 December 23rd issue of The MotorCycle clearly showing the imagination of those in the design and drawing room of The Ercher Engineering Co, Little Bearing, England. Powered by the makers own design 3 cylinder, water cooled, 3 stroke engine (but no declaration on the […]
1926 The Ercher Road Test. Read More »
Gilbert, an unusual name by todays standards that came from German origins and means bright promise, brilliance. Bethune must have been a family name, put them together and you get Gilbert Bethune Brown, a successful motorcyclist who may have originated from the Wanganui or Feilding area. Who knows what spurred Gilbert on in motorcycling but
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We all want a JAWA. Or do we? For most of us when girder fork motorcycles are talked of we think of English or American machines, and lets face it that’s all we really see at rallies. European motorcycle manufacturers were aplenty in the first 40 years of the last century however very few made
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In the October/November 2019 issue of the Vintage Car Clubs bi-monthly magazine, Beaded Wheels, there is an excellent article by Bevars Binnie about a 1935 Royal Enfield Motor Carrier. This article ,and associated pictures, prompted us to ask Bevars if we could reproduce this here at Barnstormers, as its is a unique machine worthy of
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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
