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The First Vintage Scene
By Les Shelley
Photos by Bruce Main-Smith
and Steve Ruffle
Published by Bruce MainSmith & Co. Ltd.
A wistful or excessively sen timental sometimes abnormal
yearning for return to or of
some
past
period
or
irrecoverable condition. That's
how Webster's defines nostalgia.
Vintage motorcycle enthusiasts obviously yearn for
past periods. In the case of The First
Vintage Scene, a 66·page "booklet"
which contains excellent photos of
over 100 vintage bikes , that period is
the Vintage era. That era is described
by Les Shelley, who chose the photos
and wrote the captions for the book, as
a period of time "from the end of the
Edwardian period to the time when, in
the words of a well·known figure: 'All
the fun went out of motoring.' The inelusive dates, from 1 January 1915 to
31 December 1930 were originally set
by the Vintage Sports Car Club in the .
1930's."
The emphasis here is on the photos
of the bikes. Specifications of the
various models are only listed in brief
as the onl y text is in photo caption
fonn . But if you yearn for a Raleigh,
Rudge, Ariel, Matchless , Monopole, ·
Sunbeam, Scott, Coventry, McKenzie,
Royal Enfield, James, Blackbume,
Dunelt, or Vintage er a BSA or
Triumph. order yourself a copy of this
companion to the same publisher's
The Veteran Scene and The First Post Vintage Scene.
The "Scenes" sell for $3.45 each
plus 35 ~ for postage and packing and
are available d irectly from the U.S.
distributor, Motorsport, 6115 Gravois
Ave. • SI. Louis , Mo. 63116 .
When ordering, request a copy of
Motorsport's complete line of motorcycle books. Available at reasonable
prices are gems such as History of the
Isle of Man 'TT. Triumph Story, P.C.
Vincent's Autobiography, The Gold
Star Book , and The Restoration.of
Vintage and Thoroughbred Motorcycles .
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