trials rider and also a keen local motorcycle-club enthusiast who gave slide shows and talks. 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. Although most of his life was dedicated to motorcycles, he was also interested in steam power and traction engines. 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. Finale Before his retirement planned for early 1988, he suffered from an illness involving incapacitation due to kidney problems. No longer able to type or write, he continued to edit using dictation – sometimes from his hospital bed – with assistance from his sister Daphne. Assistant-editor John Pearson continued to produce the magazine in close-collaboration. Later in the same year Currie died of heart failure. Selected bibliography The Glory of the Manx TT 1907-1975. 1976, New English Library Great British Motorcycles of the Fifties. 1981, Hamlyn Publishing Group, Motor Cycling in the 1930s. 1981, Littlehampton Book Services, Classic British Motorcycles - The Final Years. 1984, Temple Press, Classic British Motor Cycles. 1993, Chancellor Press, Great British Motorcycles of the 1950s and 1960s. 2014 Great British Motorcycles of the Thirties. Great British Motorcycles of the Sixties. Co-authored works The Art of Moto-Cross. Bob Currie and Jeff Smith, 1967, Cassell & Co. The Story of Triumph Motor Cycles. Bob Currie and Harry Louis, 1978, Patrick Stephens, References 1918 births 1988 deaths Motorcycling writers English male non-fiction writers English non-fiction writers British Army personnel of World War II Royal Army Ordnance Corps soldiers 20th-century English male writers