Mick Walker's European Racing Motorcycles Abarth while the Carrera GT

while the Carrera GT

illustrated with an abundance of archive pictures

Mercedes-Benz 300D Car Sales brochure from 1957

For many years after her decline as a force in world motorcycle manufacturing

None of those cars come close to the Escort’s outstanding success in motorsport

Mick Walker's European Racing Motorcycles Abarth while the Carrera GTAuthor: Mick Walker. With foreign built motorcycles generally dominating road and track today, it is perhaps difficult to appreciate that the situation was not always so. There was a time when virtually every manufacturer in Great Britain listed a racing machine in his catalogue and British machines dominated the scene. Between the world wars, Norton, Rudge, Sunbeam, AJS and Velocette shared the spoils of victory despite the efforts of Italy, Germany,