Description
Researched by: Marcus Chambers, Stuart Turner and Peter Browning, Softbound, 192 Pages, ISBN: 9781845849948, Reprinted in July, 2016
For the London to Sydney Marathon. team instructions included the recommendation that a firearm be carried by each crew. This is just one of many extraordinary and surprising facts revealed by the official
documentation in this book.
"Many books have been written about the exploits of the BMC Competitions Department. This one is different because in it we take a look behind the scenes, using many documents which, to our knowledge, have never
before appeared in print ... We discussed at length whether some of the documents should be included because they may not fit with the starry-eyed view sometimes held of those days, but decided that to 'publish and be damned' was the only way to portray a
complete and honest picture."
Marcus Chambers (manager 1955-1961)
Stuart Turner (manager 1961-1967)
Peter Browning (manager 1967-1970)
