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1938 Brough Superior Golden Dream

IT’S November 7, 1938 and a sea of hats is flocking to the opening day of the Earls Court Motorcycle and Cycle Show. Even the Duke of Kent is making an appearance.

Visitors fill the floor, eager to see the latest offerings from Ariel, BSA and Norton, among dozens of other marques. This is the Machine Age, after all, and the Earls Court show is its crowning glory.

But there’s one particular stand – 12a, to be precise – to which the crowds show particular reverence.

Here, the Rolls-Royce of motorcycle manufacturers, Brough Superior, displays its piece de resistance: the aptly-named Golden Dream.

It was, as reported in Motor Cycle, ‘the sensation of the show’.

For starters, the Golden Brough

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