Newsletter No 29 - VMCC - Isle of Man
Newsletter No 29 - VMCC - Isle of Man
Newsletter No 29 - VMCC - Isle of Man
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Sons <strong>of</strong> Thunder<br />
Pt 3 - The Superior motorcycles <strong>of</strong> Aircraftman Shaw<br />
George Brough on MK1 Brough Superior<br />
Shortly before he was due to leave from Southampton by ship in early<br />
December, Lawrence crashed the Brough and badly damaged it. … Alb<br />
Bennett took the wreck for £100…” He told Francis Rood “… I sold<br />
the bits, and am not fit company for the world ...”<br />
Before leaving for India he also wrote George Brough, whom he had first<br />
met personally in 1925, enclosing a testimonial for his machines,<br />
“...yesterday I completed 100,000 miles since 1922 on 5 successive Brough<br />
Superiors ...” [though he did not want his name published]. He remarked<br />
that his SS100s were ‘incomparably better’ than the Mark 1s he had owned<br />
earlier “...fast and reliable as express trains, and the greatest fun in the world<br />
to drive … very expensive to buy but light in upkeep ... [he quotes 50-65<br />
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