BOB HOLLIDAY
List of illustrations
Foreword by Jeff Smith
BSA Story in brief
1. Much genius in Bermingham
2. Piled Arms and pedalling legs
3. Right first times
4. Sporting times
5. Wartime expansion
6. The terrible TT
7. Round Tank, Super Sports and Sloper
8. Proving the product
9. The vintage era
10. De profundis
11. Star material
12. Silver, gold and back-out
13. Articles of war
14. The Roaring Forties
15. Stars in their courses
16. Ta-ra-ra boom decade (part 1)
17. Ta-ra-ra boom decade (Part 2)
18. Winds of change
19. Farewll to Piled Arms
Appendix A BSA in the Clubman´s TT, 1947-56
Appendix B BSA Owners´Club
Index
Though an era of more than 60 years BSA buit vast quantities of good, reliable motor cycles, machines of every kind and size from little two-stroke cycle units to powerful passanger vehicles. Utility "Roud-tanks", stylish "Slopers", Gold Stars for rough stuff and race tracks, superbike twins and recor-breaking Rocket Threes - all these, abd many more, are feature in this fully illustrated book, along with the men who made them famous in countless trials and tests of endurance and speed. They are described fom personal knowledge by an ex-editor and author who first became a motor-cycling journalist when both he and BSA bikes were still in their teens.
