LAWRENCE AND HIS BROUGHS
“There was the Bif. Play with the fellow? Why not? I slowed to ninety...”
Most people will have heard of Lawrence of Arabia because of the 1962 film starring Peter O’Toole. Dressed in flowing white robes and riding a camel, Lawrence leads the Arabs in a guerrilla war against the Turks with devastating effect. In real life, Thomas Edward Lawrence’s exploits won him international fame, but after the First World War and a short spell as a diplomat he became disillusioned with the scheming politics of Europe and Arabia.
Colonel Lawrence decided to disappear from public view and in 1922 joined the RAF as a lowly aircraftman under a false name. But it seems that the quiet life would never be enough for a thrill-seeker like Lawrence and so he bought something a lot faster than a camel – a long, low and lean Brough Superior powered by a 1000cc
