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

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
Prijs	€ 8,00

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