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THE STORY OF BSA MOTOR CYCLES

Written by Bob Holliday
Published by Patrick Stephens in 1978
ISBN: 0850592771

THE STORY OF BSA MOTOR CYCLES
Written by Bob Holliday.
Stock no. 1824886
1979. Hardback. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0850592771. Reprint. Very pale browning to endpapers and text block else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine, lightly edge-creased and slightly browned to rear panel.

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THE STORY OF BSA MOTOR CYCLES
Written by Bob Holliday.
Stock no. 1824839
1st. 1978. Hardback. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0850592771. Boards clean and bright. Text block lightly browned. Pictorial dustwrapper is browned, lightly edge-creased and lightly rubbed at corners, previous bookseller's gold address label to lower edge of front flap. Slight musty odour present.

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Front cover

Cover of THE STORY OF BSA MOTOR CYCLES by Bob Holliday

Contents

  • Foreword by Jeff Smith
  • Acknowledgements
  • BSA story in brief
  • Much genius in Bermingham
  • Piled Arms and peddalling legs
  • Right first time
  • Sporting times
  • Wartime expansion
  • The terrible TT
  • Round Tank, Super Sports and Sloper
  • Proving the product
  • The vintage era
  • De profundis
  • Star material
  • Silver, gold and black-out
  • Articles of war
  • The roaring forties
  • Stars in their courses
  • Ta-ra-ra boom decade (part 1)
  • Ta-ra-ra boom decade (part 2)
  • Winds of change
  • Farewell to Piled Arms
  • Appendix A BSA in the Clubman's TT, 1947-56
  • Appendix B BSA Owners' Club
  • Index