Sidecars A love-hate relationship

y father was a rider; his bike was a 1936 side valve 986cc BSA vee twin. It was built to ride with a side car, being an ex-NSW police bike, but he rode it solo. My first remembrance of a sidecar was when dad’s younger brother, Jim, had an old Indian with a sidecar. It had stopped and dad came to the rescue with his 1935 Plymouth and a long length of timber. The timber was placed over the rear attachment and under the front attachment of the sidecar’s frame, where it bolts to the bike frame, tied