The item referred to by Keith is actually a book/booklet, rather than a supplement, being 130 pages long, full A4 size, and only available through W H Smith, which is a bit odd, and the other confusing thing is that it has two titles, being headed “The Classic MotorCycle Special, and “Classic British Legends, Issue One” It is priced at £6-99.
The Scott article is ten pages long and contains some photos that I have never seen before, as well as more familiar ones. One of them puzzled me as it shows a folded-up light aircraft being towed by a Three-Speed (?) Super Squirrel. Captioned as “Towing out a Flying Flea in 1926”, there is clearly something wrong there as the Flea didn’t appear until 1933. I think that it is the plane that has been misidentified, rather than a dating error, as the wings look much too big, and the tail fin is all the wrong shape, but it has the Scott logo on it. I have a very strong suspicion that it is something to do with the “Empire Air League of Great Britain” lightweight aircraft trials held at Lympne in Kent, in the mid-1920’s. One of the rules stipulated that the planes had to be capable of being folded up, towed on the road, and pass through a standard five-barred gate field opening. This was all done with a view to getting ‘everyman’ into the air at low cost. Many of the entrants were powered by converted motorcycle engines, with the flat-twin Douglas being popular. Many of the entrants were pretty useless, and even lethal, wanting to revert to their folded-up state whilst in flight…..
Brian
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