Bikes on Beaches

[Eyemo]

Enjoy!

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...kes&hl=en&sa=N&um=1&ei=NkEmS9nSB8yvjAeKpOXbBw

 

[H.Johnson]

Fascinating...

Seimon,

Thanks for posting this material. I was getting into motorcycling in the early 1960s at the tail end of the popularity of this period of sand-racing. My best friend's father had competed at Southport before WW2 and had some similar photographs, showing a number of the biking 'old fogeys' from my locale. I wish I could see them now!

The characters shown here are memorable in their own right - Berry and his prone streamlined machine and, of course, George Patchett who went on to design the Patchett gun or L2 SMG.

The 'creative use' of the pictorial material in the Pendine Racing book shows that misinformation isn't restricted to the WWW!

Thanks again.

 

[Eyemo]

Pleasure...

Berry was friendly with my mates Dad, who owned a garage and butchers shop in Laugharne.

He would often help himself to a big slice of ham...