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@Quiet_Mike
Fantastic, thanks Simpson! Good to put a face to the name. Love those jerseys too. I'm guessing it's late 60's? Maybe early 70's?
And thanks for the pm ;-)
And also another little gem arrived yesterday as well, very kindly sent to me after an appeal in my local history groups newsletter (Bitterne Local History Society) by Terry Pook.
From the book "Hampshire Heritage, a Look Back through the Decades, Series 2", which is a compilation of Keith Hamilton's pages from the Daily Echo newspaper. (Just click on the image to go to a larger version in my flickr, don't go blind trying to read it on here)
Amazing that my bike has a connection with the first flight of the prototype Spitfire 'K5054' in 1936, another 'local machine' built a mile away from where I'm sat. Jim worked for Supermarine and was given the job of fitting all the electrical wiring on the prototype, and watched it's first flight at Eastleigh Airport.
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Jim Guard Cycles article by zombikombi1959, on Flickr
http://static.thisdayinaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/tdia//2012/03/766x511xSupermarine-Spitfire-K5054-prototype-with-Mutt-Summers-in-cocpit-first-flight-5-March-1936.jpg.pagespeed.ic.YwbYBkxxvV.jpg
Apologies for the crappy instogram, but the Jim Guard outside the the old shop taken last week.
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124 Macnaughton Rd, Jim Guard Cycles by zombikombi1959, on Flickr