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Whatever Happened to the British Motor Cycle Industry? (New ed)

Hopwood, BertWilson, Steve(Introduction by)
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The inside story of an industry which, as recently as the late 1960s, was the third largest dollar earner for Great Britain, after cars and whisky, recounting how it was mismanaged in later years.

The book describes what caused the dramatic decline of the British motorcycle industry at the time when it had to face up to increasing competition from foreign manufacturers.

It details the mass manufacture of motorcycles during World War II and illustrates little-known prototype and experimental motorcycles.

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Product Details
J H Haynes & Co Ltd
1859604277 / 9781859604274
Paperback
08/04/1998
United Kingdom
320 pages, 240 illustrations and photographs
169 x 233 mm, 735 grams
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