MOTOR CYCLE CAVALCADE – 1950 EDITION

MOTOR CYCLE CAVALCADE
WRITTEN BY IXION

First edition 1950

The story of motor cycling since its beginning in the nineties has never before been told fully as one complete and continuous narrative. In this book one of the best-known journalists of the motor cycle press has written that story, faithfully, vividly, only of a lifetime’s devotion to his subject.This is a cavalcade : of machines, from that first crude Butler motor tricycle of 1884 to the powerful and reliable models of 1950, and of the men who designed, constructed and rode them, from the few oil-bathed, mudsplattered pioneers of 1900 to the hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts of all ages and classes today.

CONTENTS :
Part 1 – Foreground
1. In the beginning
2. Dawn of a century
3. First impressions of a novice
4. A pioneer prepares for a ride
5. A pioneer takes a ride
6. The dawn of design
7. The outsider becomes an insider
8. Design at the gallop
9. A crisis
10. Variable gears
11. A seat for the girl friend
12. The third phase – 1907 to 1914
13. The fouth phase – 1918 to 1920
14. The fifth phase – 1920 to 1930
15. The sixth phase – 1930 to 1940
Part 2 – Background
16. The majic of motor cycling
17. Motor cycles in war
18. Six days’ trials
19. Racing (and especially the T.T. races)
20. Scrambles and one-day trials
21. The end-to-end record
22. Speedway racing
23. British roads
24. Inns, large and small
25. Three great motor cyclists
26. Some famous makes
27. The motor cycle of tomorrow

The book is used. The paper cover is slightly damaged, see photograph. Hard cover, 239 pages, English text.