Auto-Cycle Union

Scope and Content

Includes: general series of minutes, 1903-1993 (incomplete); Management Committee minutes, 1914-1990, 1994; minutes of the Board of Directors, 1986-94, 1997-9; verbatim reports of General Council meetings, 1919-1932; documents re AGMs, 1904-20; accounts, 1932-1950; Directors' reports and accounts, 1977-94; records concerning specifications, 1971-80, test certificates, 1923-83, and time records, 1961-78; programmes and reports of 6 days reliability trials, 1912-1933, and TT races, 1930-1959.

Administrative / Biographical History

The ACU was founded in 1903 as the Auto-Cycle Club, with the aim of developing motorsport through clubs and arranging touring facilities for individual members. It was renamed the Auto-Cycle Union in 1907. The ACU is the governing body for motorcycle sport throughout Britain and was a founder member of Federation Internationale de Motorcyclisme (FIM) in 1904.

[Information from ACU website (www.acu.org.uk) accessed in Jan 2010].

Access Information

This collection is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

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