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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Mortons Media Archive contains the collection relating to The Motor Cycle and Motor Cycling. publications which in the glory days of the British motorcycle industry were the two market leaders. As BSA was then the biggest motorcycle maker in the world it was natural BSAs featured prominently in both magazines. New models range updates sporting gossip event reports you name it BSA’s movements and the goings on at Small Heath were reported in detail. This the second in The Scrapbook Series aims to show some of those artefacts collected together to give an insight into times gone by. Of course the sheer volume of BSA-related material in the Mortons archive means far far more has been omitted than included but the hope is that what we’ve put together at least gives an indication of what BSA once was. From the early days of solid and worthy machines through providing transport for the masses hardy military mounts glamorous sporting models long distance tourers… BSA made them all and the fact was they made them better than most. The intention of The Scrapbook Series is to enable images which have been hidden for years to be seen. Although a few pictures will perhaps be familiar as importance means they demanded inclusion there are plenty of others that if they have been published before have long languished either in boxes or been pasted into ‘guard books (big hard-backed approximately A3-sized ‘scrapbook’ where the original pictures were glued after publication) and remained unseen ever since. In addition we are also fortunate to have access to magazines going back to the early days of both publications (The Motor Cycle 1903 and Motor Cycling new series 1909) and so from these we’ve managed to reprint a few interesting articles plus there’s also a fair amount of sales literature included it all gives variety and adds interest and colour. (LL)