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.
Auto-Cycle Union
Archive Collection
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- ReferenceGB 152 ACU
- Dates of Creation1903-1999
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description45 boxes
Scope and Content
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].
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Link to full catalogue: http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/ACU