Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Some technical items from the 1950's "MotorCycling" on Velocette.....

Perusing early 1950's copies of "MotorCycling" I keep with Velocette literature, I felt these could be useful to those without a collection of these magazines.....
Acknowledgement to Morton's Motorcycle Media, copyright holders of "MotorCycling"...
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Well I can't help myself....
I've been mulling over doing an item on Bertie Goodman ( it won't be far off....), last managing director of Veloce Ltd, he a Goodman of course of the family that made Velocette and with the NSW section of the Australian Velocette Owners's Club Show day last Saturday at Fagan Park on the northern outskirts of Sydney and the Club's patron, Anne Frampton in attendence, I've weakened and published below a photo I will use of Bertie that seems to me the epitomy of a motorcycling enthusiast who was also a director of his motorcycle company and loved to test his product.....
Anne Frampton is Bertie's daughter, lives in Sydney and is also pictured below being interviewed by Jim Scaysbrook, editor and publisher of Old Bike Australasia for an item on the display in a future edition.....
























1 comment:

Anonymous said...

you feel they should be useful i thought it was a great read , but i did like the photo of the head hitter riding that velo full bore with a trade plate great stuff , i remember seeing guys with trade plates hitching rides back home they did not put their thumbs out but held the trade plates up , so that anybody driving for a living picked them up , i guess thats gone now too? dave