Motorsport in Battledress

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Book review by Michael E Ware: Towards the end of the war The Bar-None Motor Cycle Club was set up by British troops in Egypt. Using whatever bikes they could find, and some they made themselves, they held trials, some rocky, some sandy, but their piece-de-resistance was a hill climb in the shadow of the pyramids. They also held speedway type events on sand which had been drenched with old sump oil!
After the war Cliff Gaskin returned home and bought a Morgan 3 wheeler. "My girlfriend never took to the Morgan because when it rained I stopped and threw a rubber sheet over us..." After he got married the Morgan went and he built a most unusual special based around a tubular chassis made from bits from the scrap yard. It had Morgan type front suspension, lots of bits from an Austin 7 and unusually an air cooled horizontally opposed flat-twin engine made in the USA which had previously been used to drive auxiliary items on a bomber. Registered XRE 587 Cliff wonders what happened to it. Does it exist today in some form? He then restored a 30/98 Vauxhall. Later he "found" a 1901 Sunbeam-Mabley in the basement of a brewery in Stone and restored that to full running order. He completed the 1954 Brighton Run in it, including having to refill the radiator with "natural" water!
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