A glance at just one image in our wonderful archive invariably leads to research which opens up a whole raft of interesting facts and stories. And this one certainly does that.
The man at the helm of the AJS 18S and Canterbury Warrior sidecar combination is Colin Turnbull, an author and anthropologist, who, having set off in October 1957, had ridden all the way to the Belgian Congo, where he was to spend time at Camp Putnam, studying the local population.
It wasn’t Turnbull’s, February 20 and February 27, 1958: “Fools never learn, they say. After Newton and I finished our 1951 trip through Africa and Egypt on a solo AJS (the first time either of us had ever ridden a motorcycle), we vowed we would never do such a stupid thing again. But we have just done it – only this time non-driver Newton had the luxury of a sidecar instead of a pillion seat.”
