Word: sidecar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Autobahn outside Munich, German Motorcyclist Wilhelm Noll set two new unofficial world records for motor cycle with sidecar, with his super-streamlined, three-wheeled B.M.W. (Bayerische Motoren Werke) bike (see cut). From a flying start, Noll hit speeds of 282 kilometers (175 m.p.h.) over a measured kilometer, and 177 m.p.h. over a mile...
...Sidecar to Swallow. U.S. owners like the Jaguar for its power (160-h.p. engine) and speed, the way it hugs the road and the hand-tooled precision of its parts. They buy three times as many Jaguar sedans as sport models, dote on such things as a steering wheel that is adjustable to the height of the driver...
...sleek Jag was born in a motorcycle sidecar. Jaguar's creator is a Lancashire-born mechanic named William Lyons, 50, who in 1922 opened a small shop in Blackpool to make hand-built cycle sidecars "for the discriminating few." As he prospered, Lyons decided he could improve on Britain's towering, square-rigged auto bodies, moved to Coventry and opened the Swallow Coachbuilding Co., Ltd. In 1931, he turned out his first car, the Swallow Special (quickly known simply as the "S.S."), built on a British Standard's chassis. The Daily Mail called...
...Square, waistcoat by Hawes and Curtis . . . silk hat by Locke . . . monk shoes by Fortnum and Mason's . . . crystal and diamond links by Boucheron . . . gold cigarette case by Asprey ... a drop of rose geranium on my handkerchief." But Beverley was not at ease. While he dressed and sipped a sidecar, he stared into his mirror and asked himself anxiously: "What is wrong with you? Why aren't you happy...