The Classic MotorCycle

More questions than answers

This photograph at a glance seems perhaps innocuous enough, but closer inspection turns up a few anomalies – the most obvious being, why has the motorcycle – which bears the British registration plate DC293, with DC a Chester-issued number – got its sidecar mounted on the right side, thrusting the passenger face-first into oncoming traffic. The second question is – what is it?

Again, on first inspection it seems to have NLG on the fuel tank, thus answering that one. But read: “Miss Pauline Chase christening a new motor bicycle before proceeding to the Duke of York’s Theatre to resume her part of Peter Pan. Miss Chase has played the role nearly a thousand times.”

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