so I guess it is already recorded. I don't believe she ever did get a winning call but she lived in hope.
I don't know if this was a Birmingham company.
Funny you should publish this, up home this weekend and visited the Coventry Motor Museum. What an excellent enterprise and plenty of reference to Rudge Whitworth bicycles however the experience was compounded by the journey back to Brum on the X1 bus, particularly the tour of Birmingham Airport,went down there by Virgin Train
At the time that this was printed which I would think was late fifties early sixties, ties were very popular and whilst the habit of an open neck shirt with a suit a la Branson is now the way to go, office workers and reps always had to wear a tie and for many years the tie had to be of a sober nature, it was only around 1960 that the brighter tie (I am ignoring those worn by Spivs and Flash Boys and also the 'teddy boys' four in hand) was acceptable and even then with restrictions. I still have at least 25 ties going back over the last thirty or so years and only since I am not on the road so often have I stopped wearing one every day. On the other hand wearing my training hat (and tie), I still believe that a smart shirt and tie give a salesman a much better look than the open neck shirt with the suit. Open neck with short sleeves in summer, acceptable, but then I am old fashioned and lately the only tie I seem to wear now is a black one. By the way how does he sleep on all those pillows?
My first m/cycle, the BSA Bantam. Mine was reg FFK 257 I think the last number is right, went all the way from Erdington to Leominster via bus and rode it home, no helmet and I had never ridden one before. It was the later model with the combined rider/passenger seat and fish tail exhaust. Thanks for the memory.
