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Published on: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 By: AFP Around 100 Brough bikes will be made this year. SAINT JEAN: Brough motorcycles, favourites of the writer, spy and gentleman adventurer T.E. Lawrence, are making a comeback – not in their former home in England, but deep in the southwest of France. Production of Brough bikes, of which the historic figure known as “Lawrence of Arabia” owned seven, ended in 1940 when the factory in Nottingham was requisitioned for Britain’s war effort. Man...

Lawrence of Arabia's motorcycle makes French comeback

Brough motorcycles, favourites of the writer, spy and gentleman adventurer T.E. Lawrence, are making a comeback — not in their former home in England, but deep in the southwest of France.