I should have mentioned here before that I have published my history of the world motorcycle speed record before WW2 with the short title Speed Monarch. It is a weighty volume of over 500 pages with a great many good photographs.
The central characters are Eric Fernihough and Ernst Henne and the sources include the Fernihough papers at Brooklands Museum and the Henne albums at the BMW Museum in Munich.
Pages can be viewed and the book can be bought online at www.loosefillings.com for £85.00 plus postage.
Doug Nye kindly wrote elsewhere on the Nostalgia Forum:
I have just received a first finished copy of Terry Wright's book on the life, times and deeds of the great Eric Fernihough, Brooklands-based motorcycle World Speed Record contender. I cannot recommend it enough - and not just because I wrote its Foreword but because I only did so after first reading and digesting a proof copy, and becoming just spellbound by Terry's work.
The book's packed with hitherto unseen photographs and Ferni drawings, and absolutely drips with contemporary atmosphere while also being jam packed with the kind of micro-detail for which so many of us thirst. It really is a great work by a very knowledgeable and talented true enthusiast, and it covers a most extraordinarily 'British' character of the 1920s/30s. Do watch out for it...
'Speed Monarch: The short life of Eric Fernihough and the world's motorcycle speed record'.
It's a superb record of, and tribute to, 'Ferni' You should not be disappointed.
Edited by tsrwright, 22 March 2025 - 06:24.
