Think SDG 606 maybe a Triumph though can't quite read the Rego Disc !View attachment 117811
Showing off their Made in Birmingham Velocette motor cycles.
Cheers Tim
Think SDG 606 maybe a Triumph though can't quite read the Rego Disc !View attachment 117811
Showing off their Made in Birmingham Velocette motor cycles.
Would have been around 1965/66. Were James still in Business then ?
I thought all the Villiers engined stuff like James and Fanny Barnett was older than that.
The original Veloce [Velocette] works were in York Road Hall Green.When I was an apprentice printer in the 1960's we didThere were various Veloce works in Birmingham, that at York Road was the last and longest lived, to my knowledge there was not a Veloce/Velocette factory in Meriden. It is a name that does travel back to the early days of motorcycle manufacture in Birmingham
I forgot to mention that the revived operation in Ward End and Meriden did huge export business particularly with Japan [ironic !] supplying spares to collectors who needed a particular replacement part.There is a big following in Japan for classic British Cars and Motorbikes.A couple of early images of the works on the corner of York Road and Cateswell Road Hall Green c1930.
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Birmingham City Council has no interest whatsoever in the industrial heritage of this city, and the word "industry" appears to be a dirty word!!With redevelopment of the Hall Green site of the Velocette factory in York Road, it is a great pity that there is to be no recognition of this once famous motorcycle manufacturer.
In their time they were amongst the most famous producers of motorcycles in the World.
They won many of the premier races throughout the World, including the Isle of Mann TT races on many occasions.
The developers of the housing estate would seem to be oblivious of the history of this site, and B'ham Council appear to of the same mind.
This company should have some recognition of their input into the City of B'hams great heritage.
Just remembered that Anne's name is Frampton. According to t'internet the Velocette preservation movement is quite active in Australia.The Velocette business was run by a Bertram Goodman, descendant of the original founder and the business was still active in 1970, when I dated his daughter Anne for a while. She was a regular rider of a Velocette machine at the time. I understand she later emigrated to Australia and married Norbert ? and as far as I know she lives there still, being active in the preservation movement for vintage Velocette machines.
Fascinated also by the report about Mrs Ethel Denley. If I read this correctly, she would have been the elder sister of Bertram Goodman, whose daughter I knew. So sad that the British motorcycle industry went downhill so quickly.
It is very sad, so many great brands just about all gone!Fascinated also by the report about Mrs Ethel Denley. If I read this correctly, she would have been the elder sister of Bertram Goodman, whose daughter I knew. So sad that the British motorcycle industry went downhill so quickly.
1969 registered at Peterborough.
I’m actually a Velocette Venom or Viper person
I’m actually a Velocette Venom or Viper person