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- Description: John Lennox Cook was a British teacher; Tim Hamilton-Fletcher was a British farmer. In 1951 the two friends completed a round-the-world motorcycle journey from London on two Norton Dominator 500 cc motorcycles, covering 30,800 km (19,150 miles) overland in 93 days of riding and a further 24,000 km (15,000 miles) by sea in 31 days of boat travel. Their route and exact itinerary are not fully documented in available sources. Lennox Cook recounted the journey in The World Before Us, published in 1956
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Cook, John Lennox. The World Before Us. London: Quality Book Club, 1956.
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- Description: Stanisław Bujakowski (born 10 March 1906, Druskininkai) and Halina Korolec-Bujakowska (born 8 October 1907, Vilnius) were a Polish couple who undertook their honeymoon journey by motorcycle from Druskininkai - then eastern Poland, now Lithuania - to Shanghai, China. On 19 August 1934 they departed on a BSA two-cylinder motorcycle with a sidecar, Stanisław riding and Halina travelling as passenger and chronicler, carrying a typewriter throughout the journey. After 19 months and approximately 24,000 km through Poland, Germany, Austria, the Balkans, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Persia, India, Burma and Indochina, they reached Shanghai on 15 March 1936. Stanisław remained in Shanghai as a war correspondent covering the Sino-Japanese conflict; Halina returned to Poland in 1937. The motorcycle was left behind in China. Their accounts were published in the Polish press during the journey - in the Kurier Wileński, Świat, Times of India and South China Morning Post - and Halina's diary was eventually published in Poland in 2011
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Poland, Polonia, Pologne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Asia
- Internet: https://lukaszwierzbicki.pl/ksiazki/moj-chlopiec-motor-i-ja/
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Korolec-Bujakowska, Halina. Mój chłopiec, motor i ja. Z Druskiennik do Szanghaju 1934-1936. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo WAB, 2011.
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- Description: Between 1926 and 1927 the two completed a 36,500 km (22,800 miles) circumnavigation of the world on two 1,000 cc OEC-Temple V-twin sidecar outfits powered by British Anzani Vulpine engines - nicknamed "Pip" and "Squeak" or "The Heavenly Twins". Their route followed largely British Empire territories: London, western Europe, Gibraltar, Malta, Palestine, Iraq, India, Burma, Singapore, Java, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, across the USA and back across the Atlantic to London. The Hughes sidecars were replaced in Melbourne after failing to withstand the road conditions. En route Malins gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia and filmed extensive footage of the journey. He published an account of the trip in 1931 as Going Further. One of the OEC-Temple outfits is on display at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.vintagebike.co.uk/pictures/captain-malins-1927-oec-temple/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3101075
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Malins, Geoffrey H. Going Further, Etc.: The Complete Circling of the World by Motor Cycle and Sidecar. London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1931.
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- Description: On 21 July 1928, departing from Halifax, Oates dipped the rear wheel of his 497 cc twin-port Ariel - named "Toby" - in the Atlantic Ocean and set off westward, accompanied by a Sturgess sidecar built in Hamilton, Ontario. In the absence of roads across much of the country, he rode for approximately 1,450 km (900 miles) along railway sleepers between Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and Whitemouth, Manitoba, lifting the outfit off the tracks each time a train approached. He reached Vancouver on 22 September 1928 - 21 riding days after departure - where the mayor met him and he dipped Toby's wheel in the Pacific Ocean: the first rubber-tyred vehicle to cross Canada coast to coast. In 1930 he set a world record for continuous outboard motorboat operation. In September 1932 he rode from Montreal to Churchill, Manitoba, on Hudson Bay - the first person to reach the Bay on rubber tyres. He founded the British Empire Motor Club in Toronto in 1928, served as a founder of dispatch rider training in World War II, and was inducted into the Canadian Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2009
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
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- Description: Gabriel Dufner was an American long-distance motorcyclist active in the late 1920s and 1930s. Between 1928 and 1930 he completed a circumnavigation of the world on an Indian Scout sidecar outfit, accompanied by his dog "Polly" - considered probably the first canine to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle. The sidecar was fitted with a propeller-driven generator to recharge the motorcycle battery. His route went from Germany through the Balkans, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan and India, returning to Germany, covering approximately 60,000 km (37,000 miles). He is believed to have completed three circumnavigations of the globe by motorcycle in total, reportedly perishing in the Sahara Desert during his final journey
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://overlandmag.com/resources/history-2/history-up-to-1920s/
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: The Dayton Herald, June 17, 1930.
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- Description: In 1927, while sailing along the African coast, Wilson talked Flood into crossing the continent by motorcycle - despite Flood having never ridden one before. They purchased two 5 hp single-cylinder Triumph motorcycles with sidecars and departed from Lagos, Nigeria, heading north toward the southern edge of the Sahara and then east through French West Africa, French Equatorial Africa, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Eritrea, reaching the Red Sea after five months. The route covered approximately 8,000 km (5,000 miles) with no maps, no roads and no manufacturer support. This is considered the first - or among the first - motor vehicle crossings of Africa by motorcycle. Along the way they suffered mechanical failures repaired with improvised materials including Wilson's false front teeth melted down to insulate a magneto, fractured bones, appendicitis and the constant threat of dehydration. Their photographs were later published in National Geographic and used in an MIT anthropology course in the 21st century. The journey was encouraged by Lowell Thomas and published in 1936 as Three-Wheeling Through Africa
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Africa
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Wheeling_Through_Africa
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55614904
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Flood-Wilson Trans-African Motorcycle Expedition
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- Description: Stanley Glanfield was an English motorcyclist, speedway promoter and engineer from Coventry. Between July 1927 and early 1928 - sources differ on the exact departure date - he completed a solo round-the-world journey on a 499 cc 3.5 hp Rudge-Whitworth single-cylinder motorcycle, covering 29,000 km (18,000 miles) across 16 countries and four continents: Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. A lightweight sidecar was built and fitted in Vienna after the frame broke under stress. He crossed the Syrian Desert, rode through India, Burma and Australia, and improvised bridges from railway sleepers for river crossings. At one point he rode 320 km (200 miles) in severe pain after running over his own foot. During the trip he was imprisoned, threatened with kidnap and contracted malaria. On his return to England he promoted the opening of Coventry Speedway at Brandon on 29 September 1928. His motorcycle is on permanent display at the Coventry Transport Museum
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.transport-museum.com/visiting/stanley-glanfields-rudge.aspx
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Boddy, W. "Round The World On A Rudge - an epic journey of 1928." Motorcycle Sport, August 1972. http://www.berndtesch.de/English/Continents/WorldAround/WorldAroundMotorcycle1901-1950.html
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- Description: Bertram Hall Cathrick (born 27 April 1901, County Durham, England) was a senior BSA salesman and experienced motorcyclist who had won the Scottish Six Day Trial. John Castley (born in Staffordshire, educated at Whitgift, Croydon) was a sub-editor of The Motor Cycle. On 30 August 1926 they departed London, each riding a BSA Model G 986 cc V-twin with a box sidecar, on a world tour organised jointly by BSA, the Foreign Office and the British Trade Commission to promote British motorcycle exports. Their route covered 25 countries across six continents in approximately 33,000 km (21,000 miles): England, western and southern Europe, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt - believed to be the first time motor vehicles had covered the distance from London to Cairo - then India by sea, Burma, Malaysia, Java, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, South America, South Africa and back to England. They were the first to cross the Sinai Desert with sidecars, and the first to cross the Andes from Valparaiso to Mendoza by motor vehicle. They returned to BSA headquarters in Birmingham in March 1928, escorted into London by forty motorcyclists. Castley's monthly dispatches to The Motor Cycle ran to 117 pages over two years. BSA subsequently produced a "World Tour" replica model sold until 1934
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.bsaoc.co.nz/stories/the-worlds-greatest-motorcycle-tour-part-1
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Castley, J.P. Reports published monthly in The Motor Cycle, 19 August 1926 - 29 November 1928. "Round the World on Sidecars." Motor Sport Magazine, December 1926. https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/december-1926/22/round-the-world-on-sidecars/
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- Description: Svend Oluf Heiberg was a Danish silviculturist. His friend Aksel Svane later became Governor of South Greenland and a lawyer. Between 1924 and 1925 the two set off from Denmark on a round-the-world motorcycle journey, with the stated purpose of studying forest reserves abroad. They departed on a 1922 Harley-Davidson JD with a sidecar, which they abandoned in Anatolia, Turkey. Their route covered Europe, Turkey, Syria, Mesopotamia (Iraq), India (by sea), Ceylon, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, and the United States (San Francisco to New York), returning to Europe by sea
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Denmark, Danimarca, Danemark
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.berndtesch.de
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7652116