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Scooter Mania! Recollections of the Isle of Man International Scooter Rally

Door Steve Jackson

Categorie
Motoren & Bromfietsen
Boeknummer
#210000
Titel
Scooter Mania! Recollections of the Isle of Man International Scooter Rally
Auteur
Jackson, Steve
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Veloce Publishing Ltd
Jaar van uitgave
2014
ISBN10
1845846486
ISBN13
9781845846480
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting

At last! A year-on-year account of the Isle of Man International Scooter Rally, the brainchild of WWI veteran-turned-politician, James Mylchreest Cain. Following a fact-finding mission to Dusseldorf, accompanied by Peter Agg from Lambretta, the second Rally went International for 1958, and was to grow in popularity throughout the 1960s, attracting competitors from countries as far and wide as Australia, USA, Rhodesia, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Czechoslovakia and India. In addition to gymkhana and endurance events, closed-road and circuit racing attracted fast men such as Neville Frost, John and Norman Ronald, Ray Kemp, Andy Smith, and Norrie Kerr. In 1971, the then chairman of the Tourist Board, Bill Quayle, declared that the annual Scooterist week was the most important cog in the
... (Lees verder) mosaic of Manx tourism. The author's access to personal photographic archives, and Manx Press pictures, combined with period reports and interviews with competitors, builds a unique reconstruction of a hugely successful event on the scootering sporting calendar: an event that was to endure for 20 years and attract thousands of spectators.
Pagina's
128
Conditie
Nieuw
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