Old Bike Mart July 2018

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On their 1928 498cc Triumph Model N Deluxe combination with its distinctive ‘torpedo’ sidecar, Brian Empsall and his passenger battle through the heavy traffic near Banbury Cross during the Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s 70th Banbury Run on Sunday, June 17. Our report, with photos by Martin Gegg, appears on pages 37-38. Photo: Mortons Archive www.mortonsarchive.com

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Old Bike Mart July 2018

Published on Jul 7, 2018

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There’s only one subject I can possibly write about in this month’s ‘Prattle’ – the wonderful achievement by Michael Worthington-Williams, who has been a much-respected contributor to Old Bike Mart for around a quarter of a century, in being made an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Now 80, Michael, of Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, received the award for services to automotive history, and he’s still supplying those services in full with his monthly ‘Unearthed’ and ‘Feedback’ pages in this journal. He’s been writing features about vintage vehicles for an amazing 63 years now, ever since his first was published in Brighton’s Evening Argus in 1955 when he was just 17. His love affair with motorcycles began in 1956 when he acquired a 1926 BSA V-twin combination. After a life as a police squad bike with Hove police, the BSA was later used as a motorcycle taxi on Brighton’s sea front with a coach-built Noxall coupe sidecar.

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