Description
Prior to the First World War, ‘The Cyclecar’ magazine cashed in on the enthusiastic trend towards easy motoring by car for both competitive and family use, a trend that was later maximised by cheaper factory production of the Austin Seven, the Morris Minor and later the Ford Popular. At the time, some copies of the magazine could be sent off for binding into complete volumes by the publisher, though often these bindings may omit the covers and the advertising sections in order to make the binding more ‘book’ like. Copies of these magazines, whether loose or bound, now fetch exorbitant prices at auction as the demand grows.
Many copies are now frail and faded so The Antar Press have commenced on a re-issue series to compile and present the fine drawings, diagrams, photographs and text into an affordable ‘reading copy’ allowing the precious originals to remain stain and tamper free. For many enthusiasts the originals will remain out-of-reach, so here is an easy access to the initial volumes one to ten in the hope that the series proves popular enough to justify further volumes.
Great credit and thanks go to Peter Card for allowing his precious original copies to be scanned. The scans have been carried out free of the temptation to re-touch, embellish, improve or alter. The paper stock of the originals changed from issue to issue and this is reflected in our full-colour reproductions here in the hope that this may move the reader close to the experience of the turning original pages without it falling apart by so doing.
(The Antar Press refuse to be held responsible for subsequent increasing enthusiasm for Cyclecars in general – both in the increase in original cyclecar values and the building of various lash-ups and resurrected underpowered ‘projects’).
