Mary Sievier - RTW Traveller and Trailblazer

An envelope was in my pigeon hole this morning and it contained some wonderful documents.

The CHSG Greencoat from 1953-58 and a Prize Giving booklet from 1955.
All in superb condition bearing in mind that they are 65yrs+

They are from Mary Smith (nee Sievier) who recently passed away aged 82.

Mary Sievier was an amazing individual - she was the first British woman to travel around the World by herself on a BSA Bantam 125cc motorbike!

 

It took her from 1967-1976 to complete her trip.

The motorbike is now on permanent display at Beaulieu Motor Museum in the New Forest.

Hear her story here,

https://www.advrider.com/mary-sievier

https://www.wemoto.com/.../mary_motorcycle__the_road_less...

https://shows.acast.com/mary-motorcycle

RIP Mary

Mary left the UK for India in October 1967 on a 175cc BSA Bantam, and after prolonged stops along the way (including two years working in Kabul) three years later, made it to Bombay. After shipping from Asia to East Africa and getting Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Belgian Congo, Zambia, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and South Africa under her belt, she travelled onwards to and around Australia and New Zealand.

Leaving Australasia in 1973, she went onwards to Singapore, and rode all over Malaysia, Thailand, and into southern Laos, before shipping the bike to Hong Kong. By 1976 on the verge of wedlock, she was encouraged to finish the trip she had been on for nearly a decade, and so Mary shipped the bike to Los Angeles and rode to Charleston to head back to the UK, where the bike "took up squatters rights" in her Mother's garage in Selsey, where it fell prey to the ravages of age and salt air.

 

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