Bookworm

RECENTLY THERE'S BEEN PLENTY OF opportunities to catch up on your reading. I've been given a large collection of copies of The Motor Cycle, 1956-59, that I've been devouring, while my shelves already groaned with reference volumes and other tomes found at shows and jumbles.

Books by Roy Bacon and Bob Currie are regularly perused, as are Rupert Ratio's books on BSA Unit Singles.

Then there are books that have less in the way of technical information but tell a fascinating tale - the story of the steady rise and rapid fall of the British motorcycle industry.

Here are four books on the subject - if you haven't got at least one of them, you're missing out.

Save The Triumph Bonneville - The Inside Story of the Meriden Workers’ Co-op

JOHN ROSAMUND

THIS BOOK DOES a decent job of telling the Meriden Co-op's story from the point of view of the factory workers. Rosamund was a welder when he joined the company in 1970