Camping trip

Hardly ever will a picture more accurately represent a period in motorcycling history than this wonderfully evocative image, originally published in the June 27, 1946 edition of The Motor Cycle.

There’s scant detail with its reproduction, simply captioned; “A club under canvas : A glimpse of the Southampton and DMCC camping members, who spent Whitsun in the grounds of Mr Wilson, The Lodge, Tiverton, as his guests.” The reverse of the original