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A visit to "Fellside Cottage", the home of Ivan Rhodes...Mr Velocette to so...
As I mentioned in a previous post, Mrs DQ and myself were in Europe in September 2013 and I took in Velocette friends in The Netherlands and Germany.Traveling home to Sydney I made a "dog leg" via...
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A visit to "Fellside Cottage", the home of Ivan Rhodes...Mr Velocette to so...
Well I'm back from a nice "pub lunch" at Ivan Rhodes local and back to "Fellside Cottage" in Bob Higgs wonderful creation, the Vulcan 1000cc V-Twin Velocette with Steib 501 sidecar....A great...
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A visit to "Fellside Cottage", the home of Ivan Rhodes...Mr Velocette to so...
Well I thought I'd bring to a close the saga of my visit with Ivan Rhodes in September last year with the two previous posts covering much of what occurred.For this post we'll spend more time...
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Velocette and a re-eneactment, come revival of the 17 years of the Castrol 6...
The Castrol 6 Hour race was an event in Australia that ran for 17 years from 1970 to 1987. It was a production machine race with very strict compliance rules which, to avoid hassles for the pre-race...
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Jimmy Guthrie...the Norton "Star" of the 1930's until his untimely death in...
I don't intend this to be a life history of the Jimmy Guthrie, others have perhaps covered this elsewhere, rather it's a potted look at his racing in photographs I have in my archive from a variety of...
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The Roarer re-created...Dan Smith in Vancouver, B.C.,Canada builds a second...
In late March this year during a rather lightning visit to the USA to interview Hedley Cox the last remaining member of the post war Velocette racing team... he was a race mechanic...and this story is...
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A Pictorial look at the 1976 Castrol 6 Hour Production race..held at Amaroo...
I've always been a rather keen photographer, especially in my earlier days for black and white images and some of my early work was done with Voigtlander Bessamatic M cameras, Zeizz Ikon Icarex...
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The Velocette Factory....... looking through some Veloce Ltd. and other...
As I've said in the several previous posts (1), (2)(3) I've done on Velocette publicity photographs, I often acquire more, many from different sources....Veloce Ltd of course manufactured the Velocette...
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A look at trade advertisements in the August 1935 copy of "Motor Cycling in...
Trade motorcycle advertisements in motorcycling magazines give a fascinating look at what was sold to the general motorcycle enthusiast.The magazine I've chosen for this...for no obvious reason...is...
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Photos from the archive of Ross Slaughter on his father, Les Slaughter, a...
Les Slaughter was a well know name just prewar with racing Velocettes in Australia up to his untimely death in the 1956 Ampol Trial in an MG TF.....Les, left with Bill Mayes on the promenade of Bondi...
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The A.T. instrument..Speedometer, Tachometer and Smiths A.T. instruments....
Sometime in 2009 I did a post on the Smiths racing tachometer, the ATRC tachometer, badged Smiths and coded ATRCxxxx...It has generated interest over the intervening years and I've manufactured a few...
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The Velocette Venom Thruxton...a photographic history of my old Velocette...
The Velocette Venom Thuxton...when announced in the motorcycle press in late 1964 and introduced in the 1965 season I was interested. Then when with two friends we rode to the Kangaroo Rally held in...
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Christmas 2014....The Velobanjogent is off playing banjo for a week at the...
This time of the year, between Christmas and the New Year sees the Australian Jazz Convention held in a different city/town across Australia...this is the 69th, having started just after WW2 in 1945 in...
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Alan Burt,a motorcyclist all his life...never married, some said he was wed...
I'd like to share some more of Alan Burt's life with you... with some words and with some of his photographs....I've done several posts on him previously and a search using his name on my site will...
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The Jones mechanical Tachometer...one of the last maximum hand tachometers...
As some of you will have realised, perusing my weblog, The Velobanjogent was in the automotive, more specifically the motorcycle instrument business for over 30 years and during this time worked on...
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The Jones mechanical Tachometer...one of the last maximum hand tachometers...
As mentioned in the previous post on Jones tachometers this second post contains the calibration instruction for the Jones centrifugal mechanical tachometerand completes the information I have on...
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Jack Emmott's Book of Engines, The AJS 7R, Matchless G50 & G45.....
Back in 1964 Jack Emmott ran a business in the UK that serviced racing motorcycle engines, especially the AJS 7R, Matchless G45 and G50 and he published a little blue cover book on the servicing of...
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The dynamometers at Velocette......
The dynamometers at Veloce Ltd. With thanks to Hedley Cox and Dai Gibberson.Over the years I've researched the dynamometers used at Veloce for the testing of their Velocette engines. They never had a...
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Photos from the past...Jim Day's been a close friend of mine since the mid...
Jim Day has been a close friend of mine since around 1956 when his family moved to a house next to where I lived in Maroubra, NSW- he's what I call my closest friend after my wife Judy.....And he is...
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W.F. Omodei Pty Ltd, the motorcycle accessory business in Sydney that I...
I previously mentioned in the earlier posts, that I've most of the trade catalogues and literature items from W.F.Omodei Pty.,Ltd, a Sydney Motorcycle accessory house from the 1920's up until the...
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