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Post by julian57 on Sept 2, 2009 22:54:09 GMT
Sorry...I am posting this topic under various sections but only because there is an urgency..... Can someone out there please help regarding the location of Jim's Velocette KTD. There is a website which is no longer maintained but, if you google search for Velocette KTD, will come up as Jim's bike. It looks, from the image on the site, as if it is on display somewhere but, try as we have, we cannot locate it. Jim was my wife's great uncle and her mum's uncle. She (Jim's neice is nearly 80 and would like to see the bike her uncle rode) so the tantalising photo is a case of so near yet so far as we cannot locate it. The website seemed to be hosted by an Andy at Exeter falcons but, again, this has drawn a blank. Anyone knowing where the bike is - please email me outside this forum. Thanks Julian Attachments:
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Post by tungate on Sept 14, 2009 14:33:30 GMT
I cannot say anything about the bike concerned as the bikes is not a part of my speedway knowledge. The bloke you need to contact is the person who posts on forums as "Dutch". I have always found his posted information about speedway bikes as most informative and helpful. I have got Norman Jacobs book "Speedway in London" and on page 57 in the Wimbledon section is a fine photo of "Smiling Jim" on his bike. I assume this is the bike you refer to at this time. No 14. Reading down that page it states "along with Vic Huxley Jim was graded a Star rider" so he was indeed a person to be proud of as an ancestor.
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Post by julian57 on Sept 20, 2009 10:33:22 GMT
Thanks for both the info and the comment re Jim.
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