By gum your'e right. I have put in a comment on an earlier page saying that Stirchley Motor Cycles had the half pig on the wall, but seeing your picture jogged my memory. I used to buy Reliant spares from Tafts, but usually when I visited them I would take a look at what Stirchley Motor Cycles were selling.... as you do.
There was a Reliant Owners Club in Birmingham that I joined and their signature tune was Three wheels on my wagon !
I was in the spares department with the late Stan Dilke at Coles in 1971 and I remember being told Reliants caught fire because some of the petrol pipe connections were just push on instead of screw thread connections.
So it was flooding carbs? Mystery solved after all these years! Were you there in 1971? The workshops were across the road in the railway arches if I remember correctly?View attachment 140890thanks to the pigs i had a full time job.at coles........never come across pipe probs, only flooding carbs, running onto the hot manifold and bang!View attachment 140888View attachment 140889
pigs can fly... right into trees
Was the owner of Stirchley Motorcycles Bobby Perkins?
Could it have been the late Stan Dilkes who ran the spares department for years?
best place for it,they all should be up there
Hi Vic, yes it was Bob. My Dad's name is Don and they worked together for a number of years. I don't recall exactly when but they moved from Stirchley to Selly Oak and set up Kawasaki City more or less where the site of the Lookers dealership is now, opposite the old Selly Oak Cinema. I remember a pub next door but can't remember what it was called.
The pub was "The Dog" and opposite was The Prince
I've been in the shop bought never purchased anything.
thanks Bob.
It could have been the late Stan Dilke who was parts manager when I worked there in 1971.
Fred hanks
Pete, what is the bike in the picture?
its a mutt. with a different tank badge.made to look like a boniville
Looks like a nice set up! Thanks,
not bad..,,as Bob , said cheap and cheerful.
great scooters i had a few. they looked good without the tin side panels onI bought my 1st Scooter in 1959 from Chambers in Sutton.
It was a BSA Sunbeam 250cc 4 stroke like the one shown below, only mine was light blue.
Had some adventures with it - 75mph on the Chester Rd north.
A cow chewed most of it's seat off while I was flying a model aeroplane in Sutton Park, and the scooter was shortened by about 12 inches when I pulled up behind a car on Sutton Parade, and a car ran into the back of me.
I notice my licence says I'm still qualified to ride a motorbike ! Some hopes...:biggrin:
my mutt 250
I don't think it was, I know Dave Manners moved into the premises in 1998 but I'm not sure who had it in between.
yer it was just down from the college on the same side going towards bham city centre
million mpg
