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. |
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.
ReplyDeleteIt'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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