This is a earlier edition to the 1933 J.A.P Engine Information Booklet previously published on Barnstormers. J.A.P.s popularity and demand was increasing and would do so even more with dirt track (or speedway) racing on the horizon. This booklet has a little more information than 1933, including a list of the range of engines, with […]
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The 4th Annual British and European Car Show is on again on Sunday 3rd March at Lloyd Elsmore Park, Pakuranga, from 10am to 3pm and even though it is advertised as a car show organisers are extending an invitation to owners of Classic British and European motorcycle owners and clubs. Over 750 cars are already
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This is a single model sales catalogue for the OC Douglas. The OC is a 600cc OHV opposed twin cylinder motorcycle advertised by Douglas as The Ideal OHV Dual Purpose Mount. It would have been a top of the range motorcycle for the Bristol manufacturers and was sold as the OC Sports, the OC Solo,
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69 years ago today motorcycle enthusiasts, both race entrants and spectators, would be packing up and heading back to Auckland on the ferry after the finish of the final race ever to be held on Waiheke Island. This was the Senior TT held on January 2nd 1950, and even though racing had run its course
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Rudge it, Don’t Trudge it was their motto, and since the mid 1920s Rudge had been mounting success after success for their motorcycles. For 1930 things were to get even better with wins including a 1st and 2nd in the Senior race at the I.O.M TT races. Even in NZ Rudge was successful in taking
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