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1926/27 Overlanders Tour by the Harley Club of WA

Researched by Murray Barnard

The story of this epic trip in 1926/27 is a key piece of WA motorcycling history which needs to be told and preserved. Murray Barnard (Editor of the VMCC) has spent thousands of hours researching the original Tour and working from original handwritten diaries to authentically capture the details of this story.

This is enhanced with many original black and white and colourised photos of the Tour as it crossed from Perth to Sydney on mostly unmade roads. Only a year later Norm Cunningham and Ted Cracknell, who did the earlier trip in 1926/27, did a Record Run across the same ground, riding

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