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Originally posted by David_Hayward
Interesting about Mortons having some of the MOTOR CYCLE photos. I have been through 22,000 shots scanned from the COMMERCIAL MOTOR and MOTOR CYCLE archives, as well as some THE MOTOR and AUTOCAR ones, now owned by Chris Hodge Commercial. The MC magazine shots appear to be from the early days of Brooklands up to the Fifties with some military m/c shots including what Ithink are immediate pre-war ISDT and similar races in Germany, Switzerland, and UK. There are however very, very few military vehicle photos, and a handful of CMPs with just one post-war civvy rebuiold.
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Thanks for clearing up the identification of the Morris here.
I 've now been able to confirm that Mortons hold a period print of the original image and will be ordering a copy. Is Chris Hodge's organisation Stilltime ? Based on the vehicles in their post-war photographs, they have images from "Motor Cycling" - the 'Green 'un' - deadly rivals of "Motor Cycle" - the Blue 'un.
"Motor Cycle"s archives passed to "Classic Motorcycle" which was a rival to "Classic Bike" and was subsequently bought up by EMAP, owners of the latter who then sold the title to Mortons with the archive more or less intact. During the war years, they both printed large numbers of official photographs, sometimes with four-wheeled vehicles in the background. I'll keep my eyes open.