Apart from a handful of pics and a couple of readers’ letter 1952 is ready for your inspection and, I trust, delectation. It was a bad year for Britain’s ISDT teams although a trio of Beezas won golds, and a Maudes Trophy. A Norton one-lunger won the Senior TT by the narrowest of margins from an MV Agusta. In the Junior Nortons, AJSs and a Velocette were the first 10 bikes home (in fact all 51 finishers rode Nortons Ajays and Velos). But in the Lights weight Guzzis scored a hat-trick and in the Ultra-Lightweight an MV led a trio of Mondials home—the first Brit home, a Bantam, was 7th. The Earls Court Show (opened by ACU patron the Duke of Edinburgh) was, of course, all about British iron but the Milan Show was packed with innovation. The times they were showin’ signs of achangin’.
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