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Last updated. December 5, 2006
Welcome to "The Motor Cycle". This site is dedicated to the glory days of British motorcycling. From the halcyon days of the 1920s and 1930s through to eventual demise of the British motor cycle industry in the 1960s and '70s.
Famous marques, such as Brough Superior, B.S.A, Douglas, Excelsior, Francis-Barnett, Humber, James, Matchless, Morgan, Norton, Phelon & Moore, Royal Enfield, Rudge, Scott, Sunbeam, Triumph, Velocette, and Vincent H.R.D.
Read about the exploits of those early pioneers, manufacturers and riders of a wonderful plethora of machines, as they progressed from simple powered bicycles to the wondrous machines that evolved.
Absorb the stories and news items from the 1930s through the war years of the 1940s and onto the great boom times after the war. Then to the 1960s and changing styles and manufacturing practices and the competition from the Far East.
"The Motor Cycle" magazine was founded in 1903 and was published by lliffe and Sons Ltd, every Thursday. It became known as "The Blue 'un" due to the colour of the cover, but as can be seen in the following pages the cover changed considerably over the years from beige and brown to blue to red and often multi colour.
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Please feel free to use any images or articles from this site for your own use. Copies of magazines will soon be available to download. They are in pdf format and feature high quality scans of all covers, pictures, articles and advertisements. More information and a couple of sample downloads are available here.
Please keep calling back as I will be constantly adding to this site and also watch our for the sister site Motor Cycling at www.motor-cycling.co.uk which will be a very similar format, but celebrating that "other" famous magazine, known as "The Green 'un", A.K.A "Motor Cycling"
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Thanks for dropping by.
Neil.
