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		<title>Heart of England Classic Transport Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heart of England Classic Transport Club have regular meets at the Griffin Inn, Bedworth.  Everybody is welcome to come along and view these fantastic motors.]]></description>
		<link>http://classicmotorhistory.com/blog/?p=120</link>
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		<title>The History of Vauxhall Motors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alexander Wilson founded the Vauxhall Iron Works, in what became the Vauxhall district of London in 1857, the company was renamed the Vauxhall Ironworks Company Ltd in 1897, when a single cylinder 5hp petrol engine was developed to power a river launch called Jabberwock.  Others had already attached such motors to vehicles and so Vauxhall joined in the experiment, producing their first car in 1903, powered by the same single cylinder 5hp engine.  The first impressions were good and a sporty looking 6hp two seater followed in 1904.]]></description>
		<link>http://classicmotorhistory.com/blog/?p=113</link>
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		<title>The History of the Mini</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An engineer with the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in the 1950s had a dream that a small car would be put outside the house of every working person.  The car that Alec Issigonis designed eventually stood outside everything from a palace to a hovel. ]]></description>
		<link>http://classicmotorhistory.com/blog/?p=110</link>
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		<title>The History of Vincent HRD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phillip Vincent was a determined man with firm ideas on how a motorcycle should perform, and more importantly, how a motorcycle should be built.]]></description>
		<link>http://classicmotorhistory.com/blog/?p=103</link>
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		<title>The History of Moto Guzzi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The company was conceived by two aircraft pilots and their mechanic serving in the Corpo Aeronautico Militare during World War 1.  The trio, Carlo Guzzi, Giovanni Ravelli and Giorgi Parodi envisioned creating a motorcycle company after the war.  Guzzi and Parodi formed Moto Guzzi in 1921, Ravelli unfortunately died just days after the war had ended in an aircraft crash and is commemorated by the eagle’s wings that form the Moto Guzzi logo.]]></description>
		<link>http://classicmotorhistory.com/blog/?p=99</link>
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		<title>History of Norton Motorcycles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Lansdowne Norton, was a remarkable man.  He was born in Birmingham in 1869 and raised in a strictly religious middle class family.  He was apprenticed to a toolmaker when he left school and was soon involved in making bicycle chains.  Work was interrupted when he suffered a severe bout of rheumatic fever when he was 19.  The attack was so bad that the doctor advised that a sea trip would be the best form of convalescence, and in 1888, he went to New York and back on one of the new Trans Atlantic liners.]]></description>
		<link>http://classicmotorhistory.com/blog/?p=93</link>
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		<title>The History of BSA Motorcycles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BSA was founded in 1861, originally in the gun trade.  They produced their first motorcycle in 1903 and their first motor car in 1907.  They purchased Daimlar in 1910.]]></description>
		<link>http://classicmotorhistory.com/blog/?p=89</link>
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		<title>The History of Aston Martin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Aston Martin is the English alternative to the Bugati and Ferrari.  The company was founded in 1913 by mechanical engineer Robert Bamford and wealthy Lionel Martin.  The two had met in 1905 as members of a cycling club and progressed during the Edwardian era to classic trials and hill climbs using the Singer sports car.  Bamford thought he could improve the car, and soon began to build cars which took the Aston Martin name (from Martin’s exploits at the Aston Clinton hill climb in Buckinghamshire).]]></description>
		<link>http://classicmotorhistory.com/blog/?p=86</link>
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		<title>History of Indian Motorcycles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Indian Motorcycle company is America’s oldest brand and was once the largest manufacturer in the world.

The company was founded by George Hendee and Carl Hedstrom, who produced a single cyclinder bike which proved highly successful.]]></description>
		<link>http://classicmotorhistory.com/blog/?p=83</link>
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		<title>The History of Velocette Motorcycles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A family of motorcyclists built the Velocette and this showed through the design and quality of the manufacturing. That family was the Goodman’s, and three generations were to control the Hall Green firm over the years.

In the early 1920s, Veloce realised that in order to grow as a company, it needed a new machine of advanced specification and developed an overhead camshaft (OHC) 350 cc engine, known as the 'K' series, which was introduced in 1925. ]]></description>
		<link>http://classicmotorhistory.com/blog/?p=80</link>
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