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1940s-display-02
Who's been at my petrol ration?
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1940s-display-04
29th August 1940, cartoon 'Render it inuseable? For the last two hours I've been trying to render it usaable!'
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Motoe Cycle 20th June 1940 'A lad of eighteen again'
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Motor Cycle 2nd May 1940, drawing of the one-piece waterproof suit by S Lewis showing how zipp fasteners have been utilised to the very best advantage.
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Motor Cycle 11th July 1940
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Motor Cycle 22nd August 1940, a view of the W.D. 347cc Matchless
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appreciate the joke!
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He laughed and laughed and But it wasn't until
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1940s-display-11
Motor Cycle 20th June 1940. Throttle her down a bir - I can't hear myself talk.
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Royal-Enfield-British-Military-001
Royal Enfield Motorcycle 1942 - Resto Guide
Keywords: Motorcycle, Motorbike, bike, rider, ride, riding, race, racer, racing, machine, Mortons Archive - Resto Guide - Royal Enfield - 1942

Show Poster Scan - Military Card - Douglas
Douglas motorcycle, war recrutment poster
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Family trip out. 'BSA' motorcycle and side car with what looks like an ex military 'Corgi' air portable motorbike.
Keywords: Family, trip, out, BSA, motorcycle, sidecar, exmilitary, Corgi, air portable, motorbike

MORTONS ARCHIVE > Mortons Archive Collection (39 files)

A collection of images from our vast archive depicting motorcycles and motorcycling lifestyle from the early 1900's through to the present day.

BSA113b
Military B40s, 1967.
Keywords: BSA, BSA Bookazine, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media, motor cycle, motorcycle, The Scrapbook Series

BSA58b
Military policemen learning to ride motorcycles in 1940; three left are M20s, two on right Norton 16Hs.
Keywords: BSA, BSA Bookazine, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media, motor cycle, motorcycle, The Scrapbook Series

BSA61a
New military police M20 and road signs are inspected by Sir Percy Laurie 1942.
Keywords: BSA, BSA Bookazine, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media, motor cycle, motorcycle, The Scrapbook Series

BSA86a
The Ceylon corps of the military police, equipped with M21s.
Keywords: BSA, BSA Bookazine, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media, motor cycle, motorcycle, The Scrapbook Series

GM0000001
The rains come in the great Nazi push towards Stalingard.
Keywords: Military, Mortons, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group

GM0000002
There's nothing like being prepared, and in the Army's Eastern Command Trial in June 1938, competitors had to tackle some observed sections while wearing gas masks. This is the RASC team, on 550 cc side-valve Triumphs and 350cc ohv G3 Matchlesses, led by Cpl. H. Morley, at Chobham Ridge.
Keywords: 350cc, 500cc, Matchless, Military, Mortons, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group, Triumph

GM0000003
Miss Daphne Avrey's war job in Cheltenham is repairing military motor cycles.
Keywords: Military, Mortons, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group

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A motorcycle is a vital link in the administration of civil affairs behind the invasion lines. Inspectors and sergeants soon learn its chief mechanical snags.
Keywords: Military, Mortons, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group

GM0000005
The Italian Army make extensive use of motorcycles.
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GM0000006
A Dispatch rider's machine blown in two by a shrapnnel shell.
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GM0000007
The White Army consisting on the 1st Life Guards, the Scots Greys and the Royal Horse Artillery, on a march from Windsor to Royston.
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Military scene.
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GM0000009
Military scene, 1912.
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GM0000010
Military scene, 1910.
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GM0000011
Military scene, 1910.
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GM0000012
French soldiers at the signing of Peace Treaty, 1919.
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GM0000013
Italian Alps, despatch riders, 1919.
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GM0000014
Military scene, 1912.
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GM0000015
Military scene, 1912.
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GM0000016
Military scene, 1912.
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GM0000017
Military scene, 1912.
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GM0000018
Military scene, 1912.
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GM0000019
Italian military scene.
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GM0000020
First Aid sidecar.
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GM0000021
Military mechanics joking around.
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GM0000022
Military motorcyclists, 1913.
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GM0000023
Rear window or main entrance, the Don R. gets to know his regular calls. Without vacating the saddle, Cpl. Franks here delivers a package from his S.D.S bag.
Keywords: Military, Mortons, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group

GM0000024
Men of the British Airborne Forces who landed on the Continent on D-day with two of the Royal Enfield lightweights, true go-any-where motor cycles, and a folding bicycle. The "Flying Fleas" - light, easy to lift over obstacles, quiet, capable of over 40mph and of averaging comfortably over 30mph and 100 mpg - are now used for many purposes and are proving extremely reliable.
Keywords: Military, Mortons, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group, Royal Enfield

GM0000025
The sidecar outfir, equipped with a machine gun, mentioned by "ARJ" in a letter on this page.
Keywords: Military, Mortons, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group

GM0000026
This smart looking NFS despatch rider attracted the attention of members of the American forces when they visited London's Fire Service Headquarters.
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In some parts of the country those big-twin Indians with their sidecars on the right are a familiar sight. The machines were originally intended for the French Army. Here the men taking part in an invasion exercise are members of a Polish reconnaissance unit. An unusual military outfit we saw recently was a Terrot and sidecar driven by a Czech.
Keywords: Indian, Military, Mortons, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group

GM0000028
In Holland just before the invasion. The grim reality of warfare now replaces ceremonial parades such as shown in this picture, note the unusual tircar.
Keywords: Military, Mortons, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group

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George Rowley chatting to a member of one of the syndicates. The apparent cigarette in George's mouth is the swagger cane of an officer standing in the background!
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GM0000030
An effective display of horsemanship and long distance jumping by motorcycle.
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GM0000031
Horses - actual and mechanical. These striking demonstrations were seen at a dress rehearsal at Catterick Camp, Yorkshire, by the Royal Corps of Signals, in preparation for the forthcoming Military Tournament at Catterick and at Olympia, London. The machines are Triumphs.
Keywords: Military, Mortons, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group, Triumph

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Horses - actual and mechanical. These striking demonstrations were seen at a dress rehearsal at Catterick Camp, Yorkshire, by the Royal Corps of Signals, in preparation for the forthcoming Military Tournament at Catterick and at Olympia, London. The machines are Triumphs.
Keywords: Military, Mortons, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group, Triumph

GM0000033
A baby BSA at the mount of a Scout.
Keywords: BSA, Military, Mortons, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group

Triumph bookazine021
Military 'paperboy' delivers newspapers at the back of the French line. The Triumph is fitted with a Gloria sidecar.
Keywords: Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, motor cycle, motorcycle, The Scrapbook Series, Triumph

WD600207@TCM LETTERS
16H Norton provided good service to the military.
Keywords: 16H Norton, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group, The Classic MotorCycle

MORTONS ARCHIVE > Mortons Archive Collection > From our issues - motorcycles (85 files)

Images used in our publications, now available for commercial use.

001 TCM SUP COVER NEW 01
A scene from the war
Keywords: 2014, Cover, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

026 Letters Military Matchless
George Charlton on a Matchless G3, in the Far East.
Keywords: 2014, April, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

062 WW1 02
First World War - "What do we think chaps?" A P&M is put through its paces at Brooklands
Keywords: 2014, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, October, The Classic MotorCycle, WW1

062 WW1 05
First World War - Lt Frank McNab pounding up the Brooklands Test Hill on his twin-cylinder Indian, at the Brooklands United Serviices event.
Keywords: 2014, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, October, The Classic MotorCycle, WW1

062 WW1 06
First World War - The Brooklands Royal Aircraft Factory Meeting. Riders line up for the heavyweight half-mile sprint.
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062 WW1 07
First World War - Light hearted moment from Signals DRs, with Model H Triumphs
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062 WW1 08
First World War - French Colonial troops from the then Cochinchina, now Vietnam, with a 4hp Douglas in 1916.
Keywords: 2014, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, October, The Classic MotorCycle, WW1

062 WW1 10
First World War - From November 1917, a motorcycle 'erecting shed', 6978-B is a Douglas, with another in front, the majority of the others been a Triumphs.
Keywords: 2014, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, October, The Classic MotorCycle, WW1

062 WW1 11
First World War - A Campion sidecar ambulance, in April 1918. The rider carries a Royal Flying Corps badge on his greatcoat; from May 1918 it was the Royal Air Force.
Keywords: 2014, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, October, The Classic MotorCycle, WW1

080 Classic Bike 1
Post World War Two, civilian Matchless G3 re-emerged, based ont he military model and now sporting Teledraulics and designated 'G3L'
Keywords: Matchless, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd

084 H21
Lieutenant Boris Moller of the Swedish army on Military specifcation AJS, February 1955.
Keywords: AJS and Matchless Scrapbook, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group

BSA M20M21M3331
The Ceylon Corps of Military Police Are Equipped with M21, B.S.A Motor Cycles.
Keywords: BSA, M20-M21-M33, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group

BSA M20 M21 M33031
The Ceylon Corps of Military Police Are Equipped with M21, B.S.A Motor Cycles.
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BSA M20 M21 M33042
BSA, M20, BSA
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C02
Line-up of military 16hs on the docks at Southampton, prior to being shipped to Palestine in 1936. Note the air filters.
Keywords: Mortons, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, Norton, Norton Scrapbook Series

D10
Men on a training course at the Military College of Science negotiate a flooded road.
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D15
Norton Scrapbook Bookazine, WWII time of conflict -
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D17
The venerable 16H. The Norton was the most common military machine in the early war years of WWII.
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D17
Norton Scrapbook Bookazine, WWII time of conflict -
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D3
Norton Scrapboob Bookazine, WWII time of conflict -
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D5
Norton Scrapboob Bookazine, WWII time of conflict -
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TCM SUP 01
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Royal Flying 3rd Squadron on training exercises in a field near Wolvercote, Oxfordshire with their mechanical travelling workshop and a brace of London registered P&Ms.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 02
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. on army manoeuvres a Royal Engineer riding a 31/2hp Triumph.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 03
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Britain's allies also used motorcycles built in the UK, including this Belgian dispatch rider (DR) mounted on a 31/2hp Triumph with three-speed hub gear.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 04
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Coporal A J Sproston on his Douglas 23/4ph, hands a document to a French cuirassier.
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TCM SUP 05
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. During the early months os the First World Waractive and volunteer servicemen often enlisted with their own motorcycles.
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TCM SUP 06
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. New Hudson advertisement of the time.
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TCM SUP 07
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Often military personnel enter club events and 100 years ago the situation was so different. Here D R Snelling 23/4hp Douglas and D R Wilkinson(31/2 or 4hp Grandex Precision with NSU two-speed gear) are checked in by a Harrogate MCC official.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 08
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, assembled in April 1915 near Hull City Hall after a training exercise.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 09
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Gunner crews on the move, these motorcycle outfits armed with Vickers light machine guns.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 10
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Motorcyclists served on ambulance convey duty, including Lance Corporal Michael Jones ASC and DR Cecil Hambden, ASC (both on Ariel 31/2hps) photographed in France while attached to the No. 5 Motor Ambulance Convoy.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 11
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Gunners of the No. 10 Battery Machine Gun Section demonstrate the Vickers machine gun, after removal from their 486cc Scott outfit. Motorcycle outfits served many military light transport roles.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 12
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Motorcycle gun ships served with distinction on many occasions during the First Worls War. These men were enjoying a triumphant fry-up having just been involved in the battle for Hill 60, Flaunders, in spring 1915.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 14
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military.
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TCM SUP 15
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Corporal W Carlyle-Ford of the RAMC Sanitary Section in Egypt with his Douglas 23/4hp
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 16x
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military.
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TCM SUP 17
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. While badly damaged motorcycles were to be found in odd dumps around the UK, the army had dedicated teams devoted to repairing war damaged motorcycles including the engine, gearbox and magneto repair shop of the ASC.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 18
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Despite the chaotic scene at this ASC machine stripping and frame repair shop photographed at a depot near South London these teams returned ocer 60 war damaged motorcycles to active service every week.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 19
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Service motorcyclists escorting lorries had died under the wheels of these heavy vehicles. This staged photograph was used to demonstrate ideal procedure - unfortunately, many roads in France were much narrower.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 20
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. January 1917, Commander Riley (Clyno) leaves the motorcycle section of the 17th WD Volunteers at Owler Bar near Sheffield with two others for active service.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 21
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military.
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TCM SUP 23
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. During the first world war 30,000 Model H Triumphs were supplied to the Allied was effert.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 24
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. The Simms Vickers 'War Machine' based on a 238cc Beeston tricycle with modified steering head to accept a gun carriage on Richmond Common in 1899.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 25
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. BSA, Matchless and Norton can be spotted in this rank of 12 military personal training for the 1939 Scottish Six Day Trial. Of these riders nine were selected fo form three teams of three and the remainder were reserves.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 26
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. An autumn 1936 press release launch photograph of the 496cc BSA M20. The War Department twice rejected this model as unfit for military service, yet after modifications it became in production terms the most successful motorcycle of the Second World War.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 27
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. The 'Territorials' who provided DRs for Corps of Signals duties in and around London practicising for the 1937 Royal Tournament. By day, stockbrokers, postmen, bus drivers, bank officals... by night, the capital's defenders...
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 28
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. After the First World War many military motorcycles were broken for spares or found their way into the civilian marketplace - then the military again began devising alternative roles for the motorcycles including towing a wireless station in 1930.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 29
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Officers of the 47th (2nd London) Divisional Signals (Territorials) were responsible for inventing this wireless station, mounted in a trailer towed by a solo motorcycle.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 30
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Now it's your turn! Photographed with a Triumph 3TW, one of the very few built before the Coventry factory was blitzed, at the Driving and Maintenance School, Keswick is a famous comprising in alphabetical order (ranks omitted - no clues here!) Freddie Frith, Eddie Gibson, Maurice Laidlow, Bob McGregor, Charlie Rogers, Dick Wilkins, Jack Williams and Colonel Stuart.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 31
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Take a Villiers Junior De-Luxe autocycle engine, house it in a chassis with fold up bars and what do you have? A paratroopers' Excelsior Wellbike designed by J R V Dolphin at the military research department, Welwyn, Hertfordshire.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 32
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Unloading a Excelsior Wellbike
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TCM SUP 33
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. War is generally not a great experience for either side on the ground. Here Signalman J Melia of the English pauses by this stricken German tank somewhere in Italy.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 34
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Think of the DR motorcycles and one thinks of brave service personnel dashing with vital messages across the theatres of war but often they were involved in other roles, including the logistics of shepherding these Bren gun carriers.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 35
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military.
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TCM SUP 36
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Designed to fit into a cigar shape parachute canister for the airborne forces, a number of Wellbikes were carried ashore by the infantry at the D-Day landings along the Normandy coast on June 6th 1944.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 37
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Or one could carry it through coiled barbed wire obstacles, the sharp wire bards scratching viciously at its paint finish. It was exactly the senario some of those involved in d-day landings discovered on the Normandy beaches.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 38
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. How cruel and indignified was life for a military lightweight. It could be wheeled nose down through axle deep water to keep the engine dry as demonstrated by this famous journalist of The Motor Cycle with the Royal Enfield 'Flying Flea.'
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 39
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. The young FANY (First Aid Hursing Yeomanry) of Southern Command refuels an army DR's motorcycle.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 40
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Young ladies of the Canadian Women's Service Corps during January 1941. The cat is more interested in the door marked 'out of bounds' than the Norton 16H.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 41
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Armed solfiers on the march on a cold winter's day, ahile a young DR of the WRNS with HMS embroidered on her cap powers by.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 42
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. A Combined Army and Home Guard exercise. these Ariel outfits are fitted with sidecars built to specifications supplied by the Home Guard, who wanted a motorcycle personnel carrier which could be armed as a gun ship.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 43
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Keen to support the military, Aurthur Bourne, of The Motor Cycle, visited many establishments and activities during the war, including this motorcycle riders' training day by the Officers' Training School of the RASC (Royal Army Service Corps).
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 44
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. To war again - and once more battle damaged motorcycles need repairing in double quick time. Here in 1940 members of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps are learning the ropes on requisitioned civilian machines.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 45
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Reaied for inspection by King George VI and riding requistioned and WD issued machines, London Fire Brigade DRs - a courageous band who worked at night in a dark London, their routes illuminated by a tiny beam from the headlights.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 46
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Agan the military needed motorcycles adn before ordering , models were tested over 10,000 gruelling miles, including this dismantled side valve 350cc Royal Enfield, readied for inspection.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 47
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. King George VI, a keen motorcyclist and sponser at Brooklands, chats to a member of the Home Guard who arrived for parade riding his own unit construction New Imperial - a disderning choice.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 48
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military.
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TCM SUP 49
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Velocette supplied under 2500 machines the the British and Allied war effort during the Second World War, including the 349cc MAF, of which only 947 were built.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 50
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Over 5000 would-be buyers stamped into the great Missenden car dump for the disposal of surplus vehicles by the Goverment, including these motorcycles. It was reported bribes of up to £50 were offered to guards to help secure vehicles.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 51
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. War over... but the training continues with this group learning how to roll the 347cc Matchless G3L off its rear stand. Its battered tank and toolbox evidence of past mishapes; true 'battle scars' or at the hands of raw trainees, one wonderes...
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

TCM SUP 52
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military.
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TCM SUP 53
The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Controlling a Pass in Northern Persia (Iran) in 1943 to keep the supplies flowing to Russia was one of the many duties of the British CMPs, as seen here with the motorcycle parked nearby.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

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The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

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The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Captured before the start of the 1959 Scottish Six Days Trial is Sgt A Timms with his 249cc Villiers 2T poered Dot. In a trial won by Roy Peplow (199cc Triumph Cub), Sgt Timms secured a hard earned second class award.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

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The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Motor Cycle staffman and technical editor Vic Willoughby learnt to perform 'the Eros Act' during his 'stunt man for the day' brief with the Royal Signals Display Team. The machine is the 499cc twin cylinder side valve Triumph TRW.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

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The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. The Duke of Gloicester inspecting and paying tribute to the Royal Military Police, over 1000 of who, died in active service during the Second World War, at Inkerman Barrack, Woking.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

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The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. In 1967 the Ministry of Defence ordered 2000 343xx BSA B40 motorcycles built to ministry specification. Motor Cycle staffman and trials enuthusiast Peter Fraser tried one for his feature entitled 'Trials Iron in Battledress'. A perfect summary.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

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The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. By the 1950's, it was easy to vividly recall the horrors of war, it was also time to have fun. A totoal of 51 army riders in teams joined the 191 clubman entrants for the Bexleyheath and District MCC Langmaid Challenge Trial, including Sgt Spencer (Matchless) of the 20 Coy RASC (MT) team.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

MORTONS ARCHIVE > Mortons Archive Collection > From our issues - motorcycles > Aviation images > Aviation images (1 file)

Images from Mark Wernham and Nick Nicholls collections - famous motorcycle racing events from the TT to modern day World Superbike races.

Chadwick 3X
ROy Chadwick's first successful project for the company was the Avro 504, which served with the military from 1913 to 1932.
Keywords: Aviation Classics, Issue 7 Vulcan, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group

MORTONS ARCHIVE > Mortons Archive Print Collection (1 file)

We have picked a range of stunning images from our vast archive for you to enjoy in print format. We add to this collection on a regular basis.

MORTONS ARCHIVE > Mortons Archive Print Collection > Archive collection (29 files)

The Mortons Archive team have carefully selected a collection of classic images from our archive, which have been used in our magazine titles recently.

084 H21 copy
Lieutenant Boris Moller of the Swedish army on Military specifcation AJS, February 1955.
Keywords: AJS and Matchless Scrapbook, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group

D17
Norton Scrapboob Bookazine, WWII time of conflict -
Keywords: Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, Norton, Norton Scrapbook Series, Scrapbook

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The Classic MotorCycle 1899-1967 British Motorcycles and the Military. Lt A S Bucton of East Lancs, a keen motorcyclist and attached to the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), posing in late spring 1916 for the camera with his 557cc BSA Model K, ridden both on service and for pleasure during the war.
Keywords: 2014, March, Military, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, The Classic MotorCycle

MORTONS ARCHIVE > Mortons Archive Print Collection > Archive collection > From our issues - motorcycles (5 files)

Images used in our publications, now available for commercial use.

MORTONS ARCHIVE > Mortons Archive Print Collection > Famous motorcycle events and riders (1 file)

Images from Mark Wernham and Nick Nicholls collections - famous motorcycle racing events from the TT to modern day World Superbike races.

MORTONS ARCHIVE > Mortons Archive Print Collection > Stafford Show images (3 files)

Images from Mark Wernham and Nick Nicholls collections - famous motorcycle racing events from the TT to modern day World Superbike races.

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Stafford Show April 2020 display - The Major and his men out on the Italian Front, here they are testing the depth of the river 25th May 1944
Keywords: 2020, April, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, Motor Cycle, Show display, Stafford Show

25th-May-1944-Artwork-Military-River-Crossing
Stafford Show April 2020 display - The Major and his men out on the Italian Front, here they are testing the depth of the river 25th May 1944
Keywords: 2020, April, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, Motor Cycle, Show display, Stafford Show

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