the SS Thistlegorm sank in 1941, meeting her untimely end while carrying war supplies to Alexandria via the Suez Canal, sank by German bombers, found by the ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau in the 1950s, but he didn’t tell anyone where she was.

Among her most famous treasures are the BSA motorbikes, Bedford trucks, guns and Wellington boots.

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/thistlegorm-egypt

in the movie RRR (incredible dance scene by the way) they had a great little green car, 1931 Austin 7

great motorcycle, a BSA M20

 

and this scene had an incredible motorcycle repair alley

https://stories.parkplus.io/rrr-movie-cars-and-bikes/

Violet Porter of New Zealand, rode over 30,000 miles of lone touring on her BSA between 1929 and 1932

 This appeared in The Motor Cycle on February 25, 1932

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10222817601528808&set=a.1617402035143

this shop sold records, record players, and was a BSA distributor

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3772152519567822&set=pcb.3772152582901149

Martin Squires does really cool motorcycle art, and I haven't visited his work to catch up since I first posted about him in 2015. I love his style, it's calm and soothing somehow

and these are for sale like this, on his website https://sketchbooktravels.com/stockmotorcycles/stock-motorcycles-bsa-b34-clubmans-j5sr6

https://www.facebook.com/SketchbookTravels

https://sketchbooktravels.com/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CbZmwD5IWRs/

the post from 2015 shows a lot more of the variety of his work

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/08/martin-squires-auto-blogger-illustrator.html

his girl friend and motorbike the day before he left for Vietnam...both would be stolen while he was gone....

https://www.facebook.com/groups/226675368608297/permalink/379475663328266

nice BSA bobber

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214825717696707&set=a.1617402035143&type=3

advertising illustration for BSA

Found on https://www.facebook.com/anibal134

the telephone repairman, in Newmarket England, with a BSA and toolbox sidecar unit

the top of the sidecar is the toolbox area, and the bottom is housing a ladder of 4 sections that went together to make an extension ladder

info from http://www.newmarketlhs.org.uk/telephoneexchange5.html

Encinitas has a monthly cruise on the 3rd Thursday of each month June through Sept

Beautiful interior and exterior

love the scallop, and pinstriping on the fender skirt

Definitive wrap around windshield

the Prowler looks at home at the car cruise

I've never seen a Plymouth Plaza before