Cathrick Bertram Hall, Castley John P. (w3398)
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- Description: Bertram Hall Cathrick (born 27 April 1901, County Durham, England) was a senior BSA salesman and experienced motorcyclist who had won the Scottish Six Day Trial. John Castley (born in Staffordshire, educated at Whitgift, Croydon) was a sub-editor of The Motor Cycle. On 30 August 1926 they departed London, each riding a BSA Model G 986 cc V-twin with a box sidecar, on a world tour organised jointly by BSA, the Foreign Office and the British Trade Commission to promote British motorcycle exports. Their route covered 25 countries across six continents in approximately 33,000 km (21,000 miles): England, western and southern Europe, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt - believed to be the first time motor vehicles had covered the distance from London to Cairo - then India by sea, Burma, Malaysia, Java, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, South America, South Africa and back to England. They were the first to cross the Sinai Desert with sidecars, and the first to cross the Andes from Valparaiso to Mendoza by motor vehicle. They returned to BSA headquarters in Birmingham in March 1928, escorted into London by forty motorcyclists. Castley's monthly dispatches to The Motor Cycle ran to 117 pages over two years. BSA subsequently produced a "World Tour" replica model sold until 1934
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.bsaoc.co.nz/stories/the-worlds-greatest-motorcycle-tour-part-1
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Castley, J.P. Reports published monthly in The Motor Cycle, 19 August 1926 - 29 November 1928. "Round the World on Sidecars." Motor Sport Magazine, December 1926. https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/december-1926/22/round-the-world-on-sidecars/
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