The Classic MotorCycle

An hour in the archive

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There’s a place within Mortons' head office that ought to have a health and safety warning.

No, it’s not the press hall with all that machinery. Instead it’s a seemingly innocuous room across from our desks

For many, an archive may be a notional thing, images stored on their laptop or on their shelves at home, but not here. The Mortons Archive is very real indeed, and there’s not an issue of that doesn’t contain some form of classic image. And while it wouldn’t be impossible to put the magazine together without access to

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