REVS Royal Enfield Magazine

 

The Royal Enfield factory produced a magazine that they called “REVS”. It
was produced from 1946 to 1955 and gives a great insight into the workings
of the factory, the people who worked there and various dealers worldwide.

Doug Young has recreated the 17 magazines in a Desk Top Publishing (DTP) programme and then converted them to a universal reader PDF format, that is available
free.

 

Doug undertook this project for his nominated charity “Macmillan Cancer Support”,
who do such wonderful work for those affected by cancer. “I have recently
lost a few of my closest friends to this disease and I am sure that you too
will have been touched by losing someone you know to this dreadful illness.
Cancer has no boundaries!”

To order a copy on cd (?5.00), email: doug@reoc.freeserve.co.uk

Below is a sample of the first magazine.

A MESSAGE
from
MAJOR F.W.
SMITH J.P.
T.D. M.I.A.E.
CHAIRMAN AND
MANAGING DIRECTOR

 

While Royal Enfield bicycles were first manufactured in the year 1892, theEnfield Cycle Company was formed fifty years ago in the year 1896. It was an offshoot of the Townsend Needle Company and first manufactured bicycles in a
part of the Townsend works at Hunt End. It later absorbed the whole works, which were in the next ten years trebled in size. From those days, until the present time, the Company has continued to progress, but there is no chronological record of its achievements, neither is there any account of the men responsible for building up the organisation. This would have been most interesting reading to all present-day members of the Company.

In starting the publication of this magazine, therefore, it is hoped to establish a permanent record of the activities of the Company and those prominent in its
organisation.

With this end in view, there will be included in future publications interviews with and opinions of members of all departments of our organisation and of our prominent dealers. In this manner it is hoped to build up a common interest among all those who are in any way related to the manufacture and distribution ofproducts bearing the time-honoured name of “ROYAL ENFIELD.”
 

T. W. Smith
A MESSAGE
from
MAJOR F.W.
SMITH J.P.
T.D. M.I.A.E.
CHAIRMAN AND
MANAGING DIRECTOR

To order a copy on cd (?5.00), email: doug@reoc.freeserve.co.uk