30 Cover Photos of The Motor Cycle Magazine in the 1940s and ’50s

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The Motor Cycle was one of the first British magazines about motorcycles. Launched by Iliffe and Sons Ltd in 1903, its blue cover led to it being called “The Blue ’un” to help distinguish it from its rival publication Motor Cycling, which, using a green background color, was known as “The Green ’un”. Many issues carried the strapline “Circulated throughout the World”.

Covers of The Motor Cycle in the 1940s and 1950s

The covers eventually used a variety of different background colors after 1962, with a name-change to Motor Cycle.

Motor Cycle Weekly continued as newspaper-format until 1983 when it reverted to magazine-format. After less than a year as a ‘glossy’ it was closed.

Here below is a set of vintage photos that shows covers of The Motor Cycle in the 1940s and 1950s.