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  • Found today in the AMCA Vintage MotorcyLibrary - AMA The Motorcyclist April 1934

    Found today in the AMCA Vintage MotorcyLibrary - AMA The Motorcyclist April 1934

    Take a step back in time and once you're in the magazine take a leap back in time. What am I talking about? The April 1934 edition of The Motorcyclist AMA's periodical for members. What a great way to learn about our hobby decades ago. Technical articles, ads and commentary. Its available in our AMCA Vintage Motorcycle Library. Go to the AMCA Website, Login and then go to the Features tab and click the library. You will find a link on the screen - click and the check out the library. I recommend the first thing to look at is the "Recently Added" tab. There are quite few interesting vintage publications in there. Next try to do a search. At first on your search don't be so specific with many key words. Just get use to it by typing a single key word, for instance I typed in a search keyword Magneto and got back 13 items. You can also go to the "Browse ALL" and see all items in the library.

    Here is the cover photo of the April 1934 Motorcyclist showing a period hillclimb site.

    Screen Shot 2020-04-01 at 11.29.30 AM.jpg


    Inside the magazine is a neat article about how du Post family members built a motorcycle engine in 1900. Here is a screen shot of the first page of the article.

    Screen Shot 2020-04-01 at 11.29.56 AM.jpg


    Enjoy looking at some of these gems that might otherwise would have remained hidden away in a personal collection.

    Mike Love
    AMCA Forum
    Moderator

  • #2
    Hi Mike,
    I have every issue from Dec '32 to the mid '60s of those, also American Motorcycling from issue 1 Volume 1, Cycle from issue 1 volume 1, Enthusiast from Feb 20 up (a couple early ones as well), Buzzz, Cycle World, etc. I love paper but the club libray and I are separated by many miles. I attempted to reach them some years back on this stuff but hit a dead end. I also have hundreds of Parts books, Accessory catalogs, Riders handbooks, Sales brochures, Shop dopes, Books, etc....
    Attached Files
    Robbie Knight Amca #2736

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    • #3
      Robbie - thanks for your comments. I don't know where they are with the process at this point so I will look into it. I know that they were doing scanning at some of the meets so that members still have control of their gems. I know it would be an appreciable score if we could acquire images of your collection. Lets see what is going on and I will let you know.

      Mike Love

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      • #4
        Your not getting any younger Robbie. So what about that luggage rack.
        AMCA #765

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        • #5
          Dear Robbie, think about what to do with your 1920s Enthusiasts. I saw Butch Baer at Oley a few years ago getting $40 per year for copy sets of the corresponding 1930s Indian magazines, and people were happy to buy them. I've donated literature to the Virtual Library, but for the VLs my VL Years book series covers Aug 1929 to Dec 1938 in 1500 pages in 4 volumes, including copies of 113 consecutive original Enthusiasts, colour photos, plus dealer announcements, colour brochures, commentary on technical changes and a list of surviving engine numbers. It costs about 5% of the cost of assembling an original literature collection, which would be tough to do starting now. The project has washed its face in terms of cost, and I hope brought a lot of interest and happy reading to people across the world. While the 1920s is not my specialist period, I'd buy a complete set of Enthusiasts just for the technical info and period photos. There are seasonal clothing ads in there, and some of the later issues have colour pages, and this stuff is becoming really hard to get. Desktop publishing is the way to go, and I'd be pleased to help.

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          • #6
            If they choose to do scanning at the Dixon meet I can bring stuff. Advance notice required.
            Be sure to visit;
            http://www.vintageamericanmotorcycles.com/main.php
            Be sure to register at the site so you can see large images.
            Also be sure to visit http://www.caimag.com/forum/

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            • #7
              Hi Chris

              Regrettably it appears we only have an opportunity to have the "scan fest" at Wauseon at this point. I will post in this thread what is the requirements should you choose to scan on your own and submit it. I think this is something we as members need to encourage our club to take on as an expansion of services. If it means there is a fund raiser of some sort the fund it we should explore that. Just the little bit I have snooped around I think it is a tremendous benefit of membership. Just the past two weeks I had been able to obtain 1980s new letters for my chapter and using a plate top scanner it took me forever to scan each page. so its not easy. But the club has two "book" type scanning systems that speed up the process and make it look professional. Not sure where we as a club go from here. I don't think sending collections to our scanning member is a good secure idea due to risk of loss or damage. Possibly if we could get an idea of how much someone like a FedEx/Kinkos or some other similar company would charge maybe the club would reimburse a member for having their collection imaged.

              Mike Love
              Last edited by ihrescue; 04-04-2020, 12:14 PM.

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