The Classic MotorCycle

THE WAY WE WERE IN JUNE

1918

During a lecture to the American Electro-Chemical Society, electrical engineer L B Cherry claimed it was possible to manufacture synthetic petrol from natural gases including hydrogen or methane and a hydrocarbon,

1943

It had been well publicised that following the Middle

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