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@alanelsegood
Really delighted that my post managed to find a target. I have accepted Ecobeard's friendship invitation, but (because I haven't yet made 3 posts), I'm still in the nursery and limited as to what I can do.
However, I have prepared some material on how and when my Dad got started in business and in frame-building. I've also got loads of material relating to his racing successes, both prior to starting the business in 1936, and then some of his later races, including a 12-hour I remember him doing at the age of 46 9in 1956), and just missing on taking back his course & club record.
I've got my little brother arriving tomorrow from North Carolina, and staying with us for about a month, so he's a wizard with websites, photographs etc., and I'll enlist his help to post some material I hope all membes of this site will find interesting. [I could sure tell some stories about Wally Hargreaves - who worked for Arnold when I was still in a pram - and Tony Boswell who worked for Arnold later.]
I did try uploading photos in the mesage box using the "insert image" icon, but I must have confused the system, as the post I had spent about an hour putting together vanished from the face of the planet, after which I almost lost the will to live, went off and had a pint of John Smith's - OK, maybe two! - and since then things have been a bit hectic with the morth-inlaw going into hospital.
I am determined to get some great material out there as a tribute to those with the appreciation of a real bicycle.
Alan Elsegood