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    SIX DAYS IN WALES

    Feb 01, 2020 5 minutes
    Photos by Oily Boot Bob and Mortons Archive

    A handful of photos of motorcycles crossing the picturesque hills of long-ago rural Wales intrigued me. How many of these scenes from the 1949 International Six Day Trial would be recognisable today? These thoughts became a plan to retrace the route of the 1949 ISDT when a very helpful lady at the VMCC replied to my long-shot request for a copy of the original event programme. Jacqueline in the library at Allen House said that most of the place names on the old maps in the programme could be read when enlarged on a computer. My wild idea was actually viable.

    The International Six Day Reliability Trial, as it was originally known, was conceived more than a hundred years ago by the Auto Cycle Union to test the reliability of motorcycles and light motorcars over a gruelling course of many hundreds of miles. Motorcycle manufacturing nations

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