John Milton

  • Leaping Lena: The daring Australians who built the world’s fastest sidecar

    Leaping Lena: The daring Australians who built the world’s fastest sidecar

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    John Milton looks at how a handful of young Australians took on the world to win the sidecar landspeed record. The nickname ‘Leaping Lena’ has been used countless times in all manner of ways – a woman who jumped out of a Philadelphia window to avoid police arrest in 1920, pigeons, racehorses, cars, trains, even…

  • ABC Tricar: the Mini that lost a wheel and became a teenage dream

    ABC Tricar: the Mini that lost a wheel and became a teenage dream

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    John Milton takes a look at the ABC Tricar. The ABC Tricar, in short a three-wheeled BMC Mini, was originally created by Ken Heather and Bill Power for Ken’s son, Trevor. Trevor had really wanted a Morgan three-wheeler, but one suspects that, even in the mid-1960s, Morgans were an expensive choice for a teenager. So…


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