Another forgotten name of yesteryear, Maicowerk A.G. was a West German manufacturer of motorcycles that hopped on to the 1950s micro-car mania with their own model, the 500. Founded in 1926 by Otto and Wilhelm Maisch, the brothers founded Maisch & Company to produce small two-stroke engines, as ...
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CN 9433 came into the world in 1938, middle name C10, offspring of Family BSA. From the years 1938 to 1957 BSA (the Birmingham Small Arms) Company, a hallowed name in the British motorcycle industry rolled off its lines the BSA C10, together with a range of other models. The C10 was a quarter- ...
The Land Rover legacy started with the Series 1 Land Rover 80", although when it was introduced in 1948 it was just called "The Land Rover". The first Land Rover was smaller than all later models, but it was adaptable and durable, quickly becoming a familiar sight in the UK and overse ...
Symbol of the “Hippie” movement, the VW Kombi or Microbus is the epitome of a time when life was easier, when sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll were in vogue. It has been immortalized in film, in song (recall Men at Work’s Land Down Under, where it is mentioned in the first ...
The Way We Were BSA is an old and venerated name in industry. The Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) rolled out a long list of BSA branded motorcycles from 1910 to the end of production in the 1970s. The ‘Small Arms’ comes from the fact that the initial business of the Company starti ...