The British Motorcycle Charitable Trust
“Preserving and promoting  our motorcycle heritage”
Charitable Incorporated Organisation - Registered Charity Number 509420
Newsletters

Newsletters

The Newsletter has become an important part of communicating with our members about the work of the Trust and some of the great events in which we get involved.
Available here is the current Newsletter - plus our archived copies for you to browse.  
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Winter 2024       - Includes features on:- 

  • Maudes Trophy
  • John Kidson
  • Gordon Jackson
  • Classic Triumph for Beaulieu
  • Riding Banbury with Sammy Miller


Summer 2024       - Includes features on:- 

  • New Beaulieu exhibition
  • Sunbeam 100 celebration
  • Importing a Royal Enfield
  • Latest Trust acquisitions


February 2024       - Includes features on:-

  • Sammy Miller Birthday Bash
  • Life on Two Wheels - New Exhibition at the Haynes Motor Museum
  • AI and British Motorcycles
  • BMCT's Wooler in the Spotlight


Autumn 2023       - Includes features on:-

  • Isle of Man Motor Museum
  • British Bike and BMCT Day
  • Dover Transport Museum - Visit
  • 2023 Levis Cup Trial

 

Spring 2023       - Includes features on:-

  • Egli Vincent
  • British Scooter Collection
  • BMCT British Bike Day
  • Royal Engineers Museum
  • Book Reviews
  • Terrassa Museum

 

December 2022       - Includes features on:-
  • Important changes to membership scheme
  • Royal Engineers Museum
  • Award for Sammy Miller Museum
  • Brooklands Speed Record commemorated
  • Great Dorset Steam Fair
  • Levis Cup Trial
October 2022       - Includes features on:-
  • BMCT Day at Sammy Miller's
  • Ardingly Classic Bike Show
  • National Motor Museum is 50!
  • Internal Fire Museum
May 2022       - Includes features on:-
  • WW1 Dispatch Riders Bikes
  • Cross Rotary Valve
  • T F Wellings Obituary
  • BSA Gold Star
December 2021       - Includes features on:-
  • Water-cooled  Classic - Norton P53C 
  • Scooters in the Isle of Man
  • Derek Rickman
  • The Great Ethanol Debate
August 2021       - Includes features on:-
  • Historic TT acquisition for the Manx Museum 
  • Sammy Miller museum extension
  • "Slippery Sam" and a new exhibit at the Grampian Transport Museum
  • Brooklands : 100 year anniversary of 100mph record
  • Murray Walker Scrapbook
February 2021       - Includes features on:-
  • Peter Williams 
  • Silk 250
  • Royal Enfield
  • Top Mountain Museum Fire
  • Grampian Museum Grant
  • Book Reviews
Autumn 2020       - Includes features on:-
  • 1914 Blackburne
  • Affiliated Museums
  • 1920 Junior TT
  • Motoball Revival
  • Triumph Hurricane
  • Petronas FP1
  • Wardill
Summer 2020       - Includes features on:-
  • Tassie  Tour 2020
  • William Charles (Bill) Crosby - tribute
  • Adventures in Motorcycle  Racing
  • Book Review: "Passion of a Lifetime" - Ivan Rhodes
  • Member's BSA Rocket Restoration
Spring 2020       - Includes features on:-
  • AJS TT Model acquisition
  • Colin Seeley obituary
  • News from the museums
  • Ivan Rhodes 
  • Prizewinning Ariel
Winter 2019       - Includes features on:-
  • Manx Heritage plans for New TT Gallery
  • Sammy Miller Museum extension
  • New Affiliate museum
  • Bonhams Auction Report
August 2019       - Includes features on:-
  • Lifetime achievement : Mike Jackson
  • Musée Pierre Certain
  • Tales of Triumph Motorcycles
  • A Ride on the Velo Roarer

Spring 2019       - Includes features on:-
  • Grampian Transport Museum
  • John Haynes Obituary
  • Collezione Bruno Nigelli
  • British Motor Museum Visit
  • Sammy Miller Museum

Winter 2018       - Includes features on:-
  • Autumn Stafford Show
  • Olga Kevelos Book Review
  • New Affiliated Museum

Autumn 2018       - Includes features on:-
  • Museum Tour 2018
  • News from the Tank Museum
  • Bonhams Stafford Sale report

Spring 2018       - Includes features on:-
  • Triumph Factory Museum
  • Cottons Rally - Gloucester
  • Vincent Auction Record

December 2017       - Includes features on:-
  • London Motorcycle Museum Future
  • Historic Manx Norton
  • Sammy Miller Run
Autumn 2017       - Includes features on:-
  • Brooklands and Black Country Museums
  • Nougier Brothers (Part Two)
  • The Flywheel Festival
  • 69th Banbury Run

Spring 2017       - Includes features on:-
  • Scooter Exhibition
  • Nougier Brothers (Part One)
  • Bristol Classics Show
  • John Surtees CBE

Autumn 2016       - Includes features on:
  • Jones 250 Twin
  • Festival of Black Country Vehicles
  • Brooklands Motorcycle Show
  • Robert White

Summer 2016       - Includes features on:
  • British Scooter Exhibition
  • 2016 Pioneer Run
  • Bassella Museum Visit
  • Stafford Show

Spring 2016       - Includes features on:-
  • London Motorcycle Museum
  • Cosworth Challenge
  • British Scooter Collection

Winter 2015       - Includes features on:
  • Northants Classics Show
  • Mallory Park Bonanza
  • Sammy Miller Run

 Summer 2015       - Includes features on:
  • Matchless Vickers
  • Banbury Run
  • Minter Cafe

 Spring 2015       - Includes features on:
  • 50th Coventry to Brighton Run
  • Stafford and Bristol Classic Shows
  • Restoring a CWS Federal
 Winter 2014       - Includes features on:
  • 50th Coventry to Brighton Run
  • Stafford and Bristol Classic Shows
  • Restoring a CWS Federal

 Autumn 2014       - Includes features on:
  • 66th VMCC Banbury Run
  • Cotton Centenary
  • Chelveston Bike Show
  • Festival of Black Country Vehicles

 Summer 2014       - Includes features on:
  • Jet Age Museum opening
  • Haynes Museum makeover
  • Motorcycle story at Beaulieu

 Spring 2014       - Includes features on:
  • A Cotton comes home
  • Brooklands floods
  • Coventry redevelopment
  • Show reports

 Winter 2013       - Includes features on:
  • Message from the Chairman & AGM report
  • New Brough Superior
  • The BMCT Collection
  • Mallory Park under Threat
 Summer 2013       - Includes features on:
  • Haynes Museum Redevelopment
  • Banbury Run
  • Stafford Show
  • Donnington Park Classic Festival

 Spring 2013       - Includes features on:
  • Jim Redman visits the LMM
  • Telford Off-road and Racing Show
  • Bristol Classic Motorcycle Show
  • Roland Pike and the BSA MC1

 Autumn 2012       - Includes features on:
  • Scooter Mania Hits Coventry
  • What now for Sunbeamland
  • Brooklands Gold Star Anniversary
  • Stafford Show Report

 Summer 2012       - Includes features on:
  • Stafford Classic Motorcycle Show
  • 64th Banbury Run
  • British Scooter Exhibition
  • LMM Triumph Day

 Spring 2012       - Includes features on:
  • Commemorative 20th Edition
  • Telford Off-road and racing Show
  • Bristol Classic Motorcycle Show
  • Ethanol in Fuel (Part 2)

 Winter 2011       - Includes features on:
  • NEC show in pictures
  • Ethanol in fuel
  • 2011 Stafford Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show
  • The Bradbury


 Autumn 2011       - Includes features on:
  • Ace Cafe recreated in Coventry
  • Festival of 1000 bikes in Pictures
  • Classic Bike show Ticket offer
  • Museum News

 Summer 2011       - Includes features on:
  • Coventry to Brighton 2011
  • Stafford Show
  • Unlikely Racers (part 2)

 Spring 2011       - Includes features on:
  • Classics at Shepton Mallet
  • Evolving Classics Hall at Sammy Millers
  • Classic Off Road & Road Racing Show - Report
  • Another Mystery Bike

 Winter 2010       - Includes features on:
  • NEC Classic Motorbikes Show
  • Classics at Stratford
  • Festival of 1000 bikes
  • Members Classic “Down Under”

 Summer 2010       - Includes features on:
  • The Stafford Classic Motorcycle Show
  • Centenary of AJS
  • Martinsyde progress
  • The Coventry to Brighton Run


 Spring 2010       - Includes features on:
  • Black Country Museum Development
  • Start of a the Show Season
  • Save the Triumph Bonneville
 Winter 2009       - Includes features on:
  • Baughan Trials sidecar outfit
  • NEC Classics Show
  • New Books
  • Bonham’s Stafford Auction
 Autumn 2009       - Includes features on:
  • New Acquisition - 1923 Carfield ‘Baby’
  • 50 Years of Bonnevilles
  • London Motorcycle Museum Anniversary
  • Two Days in Normandy
  • Norton Owners Club Event
 Summer 2009       - Includes features on:
  • New Acquisition - 1947 EMC 350cc
  • Festival of 1000 bikes
  • 61st Banbury run
  • ‘Lowboy’ Norton restoration complete
 Spring 2009       - Includes features on:
  • Race Retro at Stoneleigh
  • ‘Black Country Motor Company’
  • New book on Coventry’s Motorcycle Heritage
  • Our Sunbeam B24 Sport Best in Show at Alexandra Palace

 Winter 2008       - Includes features on:
  • NEC Classic Bike and Car show a great hit
  • Records set at Auction
  • Seen at Mallory
  • BMCT’s New Chairman

Autumn 2008       - Includes features on:
  • Bandit at Mallory Park
  • Sole Surviving example - New Acquisition
  • Pageant of Power
  • British Bikes set new records

 Summer 2008       - Includes features on:
  • New Acquisition - 1939 Sunbeam B24 Sport
  • Founder of National Motorcycle Museum dies
  • Bandit for the Trust
  • Crowds at Stafford Show
 Spring 2008       - Includes features on:
  • Ultra rare Triumph Tiger
  • Missing Enfields
  • VMMC Festival returns to Mallory Park
  • Vintage AutoFest for Wales

 Winter 2007       - Includes features on:
  • Returning the Martinsyde to Brooklands
  • 100 Years of the TT - Celebrations
  • New Acquisition - 1930 Model 10 Sunbeam
  • Funding for ‘Road Ahead’ project at Gaydon

 Summer 2007       - Includes features on:
  • BMCT - In The Beginning ....
  • New Acquisition - 1934 Scott Flying Squirrel
  • Colin Seeley joins the Trust
  • 1000 bikes at Mallory Park
 2006       - Includes features on:
  • New Acquisition - Rare 1921 Humber
  • Grant to Manx Museum
  • VMMC Founders Day at Stanford Hall
  • Coventry Parade at Coombe Abbey

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