A Velo for the rough

The way of the magazine world is fascinating in many respects, especially where an archive is involved. Here at Mortons the archive is probably the company’s most valuable resource and also its most enticing department. You see, going in to search for pictures involves looking through boxes of images and magazines too. That’s when things innocently change the course of a search. Take this Velocette-based scrambler for instance – there I was, looking through boxes for, of all things, a Panther sidecar outfit when the photo of the young lad checking his rear brake fell from the folder.

Clearly working on a scrambler and a pretty neat looking one too, editorial offices in September 1964, and hauling out the back issues revealed the picture was one of five used in a feature on the bike.