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When Colin’s nephew gave me this batch when we worked for a Lincoln company in the 1980s, he had a huge pile of the card-backed prints. I just wonder what happened to them all if

What a great cover photo on your July 2019 issue: London’s Metropolitan police officers on the Noddy Course. When the Met put hundreds of officers on two wheels in the late 1950s, many of them

This picture (left) could have been taken in 1948 but was actually taken last month. It shows my 1951 BSA C11 next to Tornado, which was the first steam locomotive built in Britain for 50

I was very interested in your Egli-Vincents article, and the heading ‘The same but different’ was appropriate. It is also appropriate to my Egli-Vincents as I have a single (Egli-Vincent Comet Special) and a twin

I read the article about the XT500 enthusiastically because I’ve always had a soft spot for these big two-valve single engines, both in XT and SR forms. On the matter of starting, I found the

Having just come back from my wife trying a new Royal Enfield Himalayan for size, we couldn’t believe your editorial piece in the last issue. The seat height is 30 inches and it is just

Being a trials man myself I enjoyed the Greeves Scottish story featuring Chris Cullen in the September 2019 issue. The last time I saw Chris Cullen was on a Steam Packet ferry, bound for Douglas

I enjoyed your article on lightweight military motorcycles (June 2019 issue) and thought readers may be interested in the civilian version of the James Military Lightweight (ML). After the Second Word War ended, James continued

There were quite a few observations about aftermarket rear suspension in your September 2019 magazine. It should be noted conversions were not just confined to off-road machines. Here are some photos of my late father

On pages 6/7 of the September 2019 issue of TCM, the aeroplane is a French-built SNCASE SE 161 Languedoc, powered by four 900HP Gnome Rhone engines. Air France used 40 of them – 100 were