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The British Motorcycle Directory: Over 1,100 Marques from 1888 (Hardcover)

by Roy H. Bacon (Author), Ken Hallworth (Author)

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd; illustrated edition edition (28 May 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 186126674X
ISBN-13: 978-1861266743
Product Dimensions: 28.2 x 22.6 x 2.2 cm

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Roy Bacon and Ken Hallworth have been involved in the old bike hobby for decades and have been collecting information on every British marque over all that time. This book is the culmination of their efforts, and it is the most comprehensive directory of British motorcycle manufacturers and their products ever compiled. Each entry contains a summary history of the manufacturer and its most important machines, and where possible entries are illustrated. There are over 850 illustrations in total.

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Roy Bacon has been writing books on motorcycles and motorcycling since 1964. Since 1989 he has been a publisher and continues to produce new titles to add to the 100 or so that he has already written. Ken Hallworth has been actively involved in the world of motorcycles for most of his life. He was secretary of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club and later it's President. During 1985 he founded the magazine Old Bike Mart and introduced the quarterly magazine Old Bike.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Encyclopaedic vintage and veteran expertise. Easy to dip in to, 27 Nov 2008

By	Hooligween "Rowena the Red" (Kernow, Great Britain) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This book isn't likely to be an impulse-buy - the sort of motorcycling reference book which you pick up in passing and save for a rainy day's reading. It is a heavyweight tome. It contains details of over 1100 British marques, so it was never going to be a pocketbook...

The authors are two of the most respected writers in the classic bike world. To even consider rivalling Erwin Tragatsch's established and invaluable 'Illustrated Encyclopedia of Motorcycles' from 1977 would be a brave move, and Messers Bacon and Hallworth have smartly side-stepped the issue by concentrating only on British motorcycles. (They probably didn't feel like spending another 20 years researching the rest of the world, either).
This means that the Directory covers under half the marques of Tragatsch, in much the same style, and in roughly the same number of pages. Are we getting twice the information, then?

In most cases, yup; sure are. For instance, the Tragatsch listing for 'Bradbury' runs to eight lines while the Directory listing gives a full two columns of detail, plus three illustrations. Not bad for a Lancashire company which folded its tents in 1924. But this should come as no surprise; Ken Hallworth's fascination has long focused on REALLY old bikes, and if anyone were going to get this right then it should be him. Likewise, Roy Bacon has written the histories of the mainstream marques over and again - it must have been nice for them both to turn the spotlight on the lesser-knowns companies and their bikes for a change. If you can find a flaw in their summaries of the pre-war models then you're a better man than I.

Where things get a little less precise is in the more modern era, particularly in the captioning of some photos of bikes from the latter part of the 20th century. The detailed descriptions lavished on the machines from the 19-oh-something era fade to more general statements - some of which are less accurate than others. And 15 years of modern Triumphs are summed up in a single column of text with just one photo, while the preceding 88 years get nine full pages of coverage. Nitpicking? Probably. (But the title refers to British motorcycles, not classic ones...).

For information about pre-war bikes, it's unlikely that you'll find a better source covering so many varied marques in such detail. The illustrations are fascinating too, including hundreds of brochure pictures of motorcycles which you will never have seen elsewhere.

The Directory represents the expertise of both authors, two lifetimes in classic motorcycling, distilled into easily-read segments. Worth every penny.
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