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Hi Lyn, a really interesting insight into these post war Races. As a 'Brummie' with a Motorcycle Shop, Eric would probably have had an 'in' to the many Birmingham based Motorcycle Teams and Privateers of the time. Some of the pictures are not 'posed' factory shots or photogenic media items, so...

Hi Lyn, great period picture. The bike at the back is obviously a DOT, the one in the foreground I thought was one of the early 60's AMC James/FB hybrids, but I don't recognize the duplex frame. If only Hampstead Rd could be now as it was then ! There were a myriad of small Motorcycle Shops...

Hi Doug 1944, (and others), yes, this was GEORGE YEOMANS. He saw the dearth of supply of spares for British Motorcycles that was arising from the demise of both the MotorCycle Manufacturing and Trade outlets in the UK, and, reasoning correctly that there were an awful lot of 'bikes around that...

See Post on KINGS of B'ham The one in Stirchley was Birmingham Motorcycles, they struggled on into the 90's but went, although the shop is still there today, just boarded up. The Ice Rink one, Solihull Motorcycles was started by Terry from KiNGS. Sheldon Motorcycles on the Coventry Rd at the...

Re KINGS of Birmingham. Not to be confused with the 'Kings of Oxford' chain started by Stan Hailwood, (Mike's father). This firm was started by Wilf KING in the 1960's as a Bicycle shop on Bromford Lane at the Beaufort Cinema X- Roads, opposite the Fox & Goose PH and Shopping Centre.. Expanded...

Thank you. The late 60's & early 70's were a time of change in B'ham. What was built then has now been knocked down, so even those memories have gone. I was a spotty teenager then, frightened of my own shadow, but they were good times. It's a shame Cope's, Grays, Kings, Aston Autos, B'ham...

Hi, I've just come across this whilst doing some research on another subject. I started riding 'bikes in 1970. I visited the DZ twice, also Alex's Pie Stall. Dave the Rev (or Dave the Vic - take your pick), wasn't there when I was, but he's popped up in Media.articles on B'ham over the years. I...