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  • The golden years of DMW

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    Well-built and innovative, the West Midlands-manufactured DMW motorcycles were among the most sought-after lightweights of their day, as these Mortons Archive photos show 

  • Ramsgate records shaved

    Ramsgate records shaved

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    George Brown and Reg Gilbert put up new times on the seafront.  

  • Cafe society

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    The label ‘classic’ is applied to all sorts of things from music to architecture through films and furniture – the Gold Star is a motorcycle for which the word could have been invented. 

  • The Cunliffe Brough

    The Cunliffe Brough

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    At the Stalybridge Speed Trials, Jack Cunliffe launches his Brough-Superior  

  • Dark day at the races

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    With a tragic accident during Friday practice and then a hugely disappointing crowd, enthusiasm was dampened further by race day morning rain. But, gradually, the sun came out and the racing was actually rather good. 

  • Eagle soars again

    Eagle soars again

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    This freshly restored 350cc JAP-engined Coventry-Eagle has returned to the road for the first time in more than half a century.  

  • Mystery train

    Mystery train

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    This oil-in-frame 650cc T120 Bonneville emerged from the confusion of the Meriden blockade. Today it pulls like a train – but is a bit of a mystery… 

  • Small but strong

    Small but strong

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    The BSA C11 was a solid, workmanlike motorcycle, possessing many of the attributes of its bigger brethren, presented in a pint-sized package.  

  • UneXpected pleasure

    UneXpected pleasure

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    A big, overweight, wobbly sidecar tug, right? Well, no, that’s not what the late Matchless Model X is at all.  

  • Portway promenade

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    Lovely period photograph, from June 1933, of motorcyclists and their machines lined on the Portway, Bristol. ‘… the fine concrete road and promenade running beside the river Avon in the deep Avon Gorge at Clifton, a suburb of Bristol.’Lovely period photograph, from June 1933, of motorcyclists and their machines lined on the Portway, Bristol. ‘……

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