Saturday, November 25, 2017

Bournemouth Motor Cycle and Light Car Club events 1922

A post from Carrer Aldo on the fb Motorcycles 1867 to 1930 group combining for me both local interest and vintage motorcycles stirred my nerdish instincts so I went on a hunt for more info. I haven't found any good information on the Bournemouth Motor Cycle and Light Car Club (BMCLC from now on for brevity's sake) which seems to be long defunct. I did however come across a few more images and for good measure, just for the sake of it, I have included a couple of cars made in Bournemouth during the same era.

Several of the images are taken at Blissford Hill near Fordingbridge. The hill nowadays doesn't look like it would pose much of a challenge for any vehicle (though the event was a flexibility trial so maybe entrants needed to go up in top gear or some such) and is of course now paved. The location remains bucolic and is a popular spot for cyclists.

DT Phillips on a Harley Davidson storming up Blissford Hill.

'Bournemouth MC & LC Club Flexibility Trial, Blissford
Hill, Fordingbridge, April 29th, 1922.' A slightly more
stately looking ascent.

Bournemouth MC & LC Club Flexibility Trial, Fordingbridge,
April 29th, 1922. 'A minor casualty'.

August 12th 1922. A NUT and a Brough Superior outside
the Bournemouth Borough Council Offices.

August 12th 1922 again. Just by the Bournemouth
Council offices adjacent to the pleasure gardens.

Bournemouth MC & LC Club Flexibility Trial, Blissford
Hill, Fordingbridge, April 29th, 1922.

A suit and tie is the only reasonable attire for a gentleman
participating in motor cycle sport!

Bournemouth MC & LC Club Flexibility Trial, Blissford
Hill, Fordingbridge, April 29th, 1922.

Bournemouth MC & LC Club Flexibility Trial, Blissford
Hill, Fordingbridge, April 29th, 1922.

Spring Meeting, Bournemouth MC & LC Club, March
26th, 1922. 'Doesn't it look pretty, papa!'

Spring Meeting, Bournemouth MC & LC Club, Lyndhurst,
March 26th, 1922.

And for good measure a rather low res picture of
the Palmerston car, made in Bournemouth between
1920 and 1923 and which competed in BMCLCC events.
There is more about the Palmerston in a brief
article from local rag, The Evening Echo.

And another low res image of another Bournemouth
motor car: the Christchurch Campbell made for 1922
only and may very well have competed in BMCLCC
events. This image from online car encyclopaedia,
All Car Index.


2 comments:

  1. The third-to-last photo shows an attractive cycle car with side-mounted spare wheel and very long wheelbase (front wheels far in advance of the body of the car). Lovely.

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    1. It's a GN, forerunner of the Frazer Nash. Lovely sporting cars and very receptive to tuning and engine transplants, there are some truly ferocious GN specials out there, search them on youtube!

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