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AUGUST 2021
TRIBUTE TO HAROLD TAPSCOTT 100
A Tribute to Harold Tapscott Motorcycling Legend - 100th Birthday By Richard de Groot, Member #769
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ho is Harold Tapscott?
That is the question I asked myself when I read an article on another group’s Facebook. So; I checked out a link to a (Editor: amazing appropriate here) website created by Harold’s son Rocky Tapscott: Harold Tapscott.com
Harold in the Hasting racing team, Sussex 1949 Harold was not recorded in the club’s database as having been a club member. But hell; who expects records from the 60’s through to the 80’s to be accurate. So, a few telephone calls were made and I eventually contacted long term club member #88 Iain Nye. Iain, just as did Noel Sopeer who I later contacted, remembered the time when Harold was a club member and a regular participant and organiser of club rides. Iain recalled that Harold’s daughter often accompanied Harold at a Cane Toad Rally My interest was then raised a few levels Harold on club rides. by Harold’s achievements; and especially when I scrolled towards the end of the web page and saw a photograph of a BMW Motorcycle Club Queensland banner. Harold was on a Honda CX 500 in the photograph which was taken in the 70’s, and there standing near the club banner was our wellknown BMWMCQ life member #24 Noel Sopeer. Noel did look just a little younger. In full flight at Oxley, QLD in 1952 I established that in the late 70’s and possible sooner and just perhaps a little later, Harold Tapscott was a member of the BMWMCQ. Through the web page I tracked down Rocky. I quickly learned that both Rocky and staff from
