Classic Bike Guide

Motorcycle archive goes digital

Looking for information about your classic and need it now? The National Motorcycle Museum has digitised the Bruce Main-Smith Archive – an incredible resource of more than 5000 items. For 50-plus years, BMS specialised in producing high quality black-and-white photocopy sets of manufacturer’s original literature that had gone out of print. These are now available to purchase exclusively as digital copies delivered directly to customers’ e-mail addresses as a PDF file.

The museum web shop contains an alphabetical listing of the items, which include motorcycle workshop manuals, illustrated parts books, annual sales catalogues and instruction books from the late 1800s to the 1980s.

This archive includes workshop manuals, illustrated parts books using ‘exploded’ drawings, and annual sales catalogues usually illustrating every model

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