Bob Currie

[4] Writing in Currie's obituary, one former-collaborator remembered that many described him as "The Walking Encyclopaedia of Motor Cycling History", whilst his former understudy and editor-designate John Pearson described his death as "this country has lost its leading writer, historian and authority on veteran, vintage and classic British motorcycles".

He joined the Territorial Army, before conscription to the armed forces for the duration of World War II, in the RAOC (later known as REME) where he maintained and repaired tanks and acted as a despatch rider, progressing to the rank of Staff Sergeant.

Currie was offered the vacancy, initially at head office in London, progressing in 1956 to Midland Editor based at Birmingham, the area where his family resided, in a city central to a region where many British motorcycle manufacturers, metal-industries and component-producers were located.

Complete operational control was given to Currie in Birmingham, although overall responsibility remained at head-office in Sutton, Surrey, with former Motor Cycle Weekly editor Mick Woollett as Editor-in-Chief.

[10] As Vice-President of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club he judged concours d'elegance restorations, held Question-and-Answer sessions at classic bike shows and never tired of riding the many machines features in the magazine.

[3] During the middle and later parts of his career Currie converted his vast experience of British manufacturers and period motorcycles into authorship of books, mostly in his own right but occasionally in collaboration with others.