Letters

My dad, Jim Mundy, raced with Archie Goddard in scrambles in the early-to-mid 1950s, and they were pretty good friends for a while, but then lost touch with each other after Dad gave up scrambling and moved over to trials. Archie, and his father Dick, had a motorcycle shop in Desborough Road, High Wycombe, in…

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The letter from John Lines on page 38 of OBM (August) was of interest to me as I run the Tiger Cub and Terrier ‘Register of Survivors’, and was interested to see if any of the machines he mentions were listed in it. The Register currently lists roughly 11,500 surviving bikes, frames and engines, but…

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After a long and complicated search to get in touch my old friend George Pooley, whose hand-built specials included a four-cylinder Trident called the Quadrant and a 1500cc Triumph six (two T160 triples joined together on a common crankcase to make a V6) we finally met up again – by chance and after 43 years…

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The accompanying photo and information were given to me by a friend, and I thought it might interest your readers. The rider is Dave Anderson, my friend’s late uncle, who was born around 1918/19 so was probably about 18 when the photo was taken. Standing next to him is his mentor and future brother-in-law Benny…

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I have an extremely rare and interesting project that’s been percolating for about 30 years, but was delayed because I was one of those involved in the resurrection of eight racing Velocettes amongst many others that were severely burned in the fire of September 16, 2003 at the National Motorcycle Museum. Despite my allegiance to…

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The picture of a group of mostly BSA riders in your ‘Unidentical Twins’ feature in OBM (June) was taken just outside the Customs & Excise car hall at the Western Docks in Dover. The view over the low building in the foreground is towards the Dover-Dunkerque train ferry dock, hence the rail wagons at the…

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A friend recently sent me a number of photographs of old motorcycles dating from the early part of the last century, some of which readers might find very interesting, as I certainly did. The photo of folk moving furniture with a combination is of particular interest – how times have changed! Several of the bikes…

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When I received last month’s OBM and saw the National Rally seafront scene at Rhyl, I was quite taken aback, thinking it was the same rally I took part in, but then I realised my own efforts had been in 1962. My machine was a 1957 Norton Dominator that I bought new and sold about…

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I recognised the photo on the front page of last month’s OBM as my old stomping ground of Rhyl promenade straightaway – not that I was lucky enough to have seen it in its heyday of the 1950s, because I didn’t come onto the scene until the early 1970s. We had a good go at…

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Your feature about the vintage reunion at Montlhery was most welcome. I’m sure many of your readers would love the event as it features only prewar machinery in two, three and four-wheeled form, making it an opportunity to view stuff never normally seen in the UK, with vehicles attending from all over Europe. Motorcycles are…

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