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- --BeyondBoundary_1_Mon_Jul_10_10:57:42_2000__29
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"Whatever Happened to the British Motorcycle Industry?" by Bert Hopwood

ISBN 1859604277

Available on Amazon.com for $18.36 USD


>  From: Otterboy <jong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 07/10/2000 10:50:
>  
>  
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>         This may be of interest to some of you.  I was at Powells Books 
>  in Portland this weekend, and picked up "What Happened to the British
>  Motorcycle Industry?" by Brent Hopwood, a high level engineer for (at
>  different times) Norton, BSA, Triumph, and Areil.  Pretty nice
>  dissection of the death of Coventry/Meridian Triumph, along with some
>  cool talk about the actual bikes and engines.  I recommend it to
>  anyone wanting to know some of the history of our favorite bikes!  It
>  was originally published in 1981, and has been reprinted several
>  times, most recently in '98.
>  
>  -- 
>  -jong
>  
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