Whatever happend to? JOHN HEMPLEMAN
Dec 14, 2021
3 minutes
Words: Fred Pidcock
Photographs:
Mortons Archive
The editor and co-founder of Motor Cycle News, Cyril Quantrill, could hardly have wished for a bigger story for the first issue of the new weekly.
The date was November 30, 1955, and the story making the headline of ‘Geoff Duke suspended’ was the decision of the governing body of motorcycle sport, the Commission Sportive of the Federation Internationale Motocycliste, to ban 14 British and Commonwealth riders for six months commencing January 1, 1956.The ban was the outcome
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