Hi Geofffw
Way back in the fortys and fifties and sixtys there was the bike ;manufactors of saddles makers called walker and woods limited
Just around the corner from clays music stores in lionell street and just off constitution hill they made bike sasdles for alot of companies
and the sun cycle makers way back in the old days was up lozzells road and it wa replaced by bainess bakery many years later
and i met a very old lady whom became disabled in her youth and it was her family whom was the manufactory of sun cycles
in there early years this lady whom was in her eightys when i met her at her house in castle bromwich way back in the early seventys
and she told me then of her company shares in the famly bussiness there and then of the sun cycle manufacting they founded and made them
A Little note i would like to mention regarding dawes cycle in which it backed on to the speedwell pub along the cannal
that way back in the early seventys that most of the young kids from the haymills area ; speedwell road and george rd and redhil rd
hay mills was one week end riding around on there spankng brand new bikes from there
a couple of the rough older kids came across a hole in the wall along the cannal belonging to dawes cycles factory
and they all took it upon themselves to nip through the hole in the wall and help themselves to a bike free [ nicked ]
by tuesday morning the acocks green old bill wwas driving around and picking them up from around hay mills
it was amasement to se all these kids of the same riding around happy smiling but the smile soon went and the culprits was charged for theft
best wishes Astonian;;; Alan;;;