Reviews

  • The Matchless Colliers

    The Matchless Colliers

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      The old AJS and Matchless marques, aka Associated Motorcycles, have an extensive and illustrious history which dates back to

  • Book Review: Where BSAs Dare! BSA’s 1952 ISDT Golds and Maudes Trophy

    Book Review: Where BSAs Dare! BSA’s 1952 ISDT Golds and Maudes Trophy

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    Author: Norman Vanhouse – with updates by Graham Vanhouse C.Eng., F.I.Mech.E. Foreword by: Jeff Smith MBE. Published by: Panther Publishing Ltd, 10 Limes Avenue, High Wycombe, Bucks HP11 1DP Tel.: 01494 534778. E-mail: [email protected] www.panther-publishing.com

  • The Strange Death of the British Motor Cycle Industry

    The Strange Death of the British Motor Cycle Industry

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    This book provides a dispassionate examination of the evidence leading to the decline of motorcycle manufacturing in Britain. Although there

  • Book Review: Overland to Vietnam – on a 1941 Matchless G3L

    Book Review: Overland to Vietnam – on a 1941 Matchless G3L

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    Widely regarded as the favourite motorcycle of dispatch riders during the Second World War, the 350cc Matchless G3L pushrod single was respected for its ruggedness and durability, and Gordon May’s latest book, Overland to Vietnam,

  • Book Review: The Campion Cycle Company Story

    Book Review: The Campion Cycle Company Story

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    Author: Dave Crofts Published by: D W M Crofts, The Paddock, Bell Lane, Weston, Newark, Nottinghamshire NG23 6TW Tel.: 01636 822004 E-mail: [email protected] Also available from: Amazon. Softback, 210 x 295mm (portrait); 118 pages with

  • Book Review: The Campion Cycle Company Story

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    Author: Dave Crofts Published by: D W M Crofts, The Paddock, Bell Lane, Weston, Newark, Nottinghamshire NG23 6TW Tel.: 01636 822004 E-mail: [email protected] Also available from: Amazon. Softback, 210 x 295mm (portrait); 118 pages with

  • Wake up – and smell the leather!

    Wake up – and smell the leather!

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    If a book ever deserved to be bound in soft, supple, deep black leather, then this is it! Open its pages and, just like the Jumanji board game in the 1995 film of the same

  • The complete story of the Matchless Colliers

    The complete story of the Matchless Colliers

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    Many TT fans will know that Charles R Collier, riding a Matchless, won the 1907 single-cylinder class over 10 laps of the original St John’s course, a distance of 158.125 miles, in 4hrs 8min 8sec

  • Joey Dunlop: a real racer’s life

    Joey Dunlop: a real racer’s life

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      This softback biography of TT legend William Joseph Dunlop is one of the few publications on this subject to

  • Book Review: Edward Turner – the man behind the motorcycles

    Book Review: Edward Turner – the man behind the motorcycles

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      Foreword by: John R Nelson MA (Eng.), M.I.Mech.E. Veloce Classic Reprint Series Published by: Veloce Publishing Ltd, Veloce House, Parkway Farm Business Park, Middle Farm Way, Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 3AR Tel: 01305 260068

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