The Manufacturer who rode his bikes....Bertie Goodman, Velocette managing director, a general look at his life.........part 1

"The Manufacturer who rode his bikes"....
Bertie Goodman,of the Goodman family, whose grandfather started Veloce Ltd in 1905 which produced Velocette motorcycles up until their closure in February 1971....known also as BJG, he was the last managing director of the company.....
This photo illustrates the story perfectly...BJG looks longingly on as he prepares to ride the KTT...
This is only a tantalising glimpse of a figure who formed part of the once great British motorcycle industry......

Several articles were written on BJG , both in "Motorcycle Sport" the UK monthly ( now trading as "Motorcycle Sport and Leisure"..)...we'll look at them both as I've scanned the pages and there will be no further comment from me, other than to label the various photographs I intend to illustrate the blog with.
Due to the size of the text, this will carry through two Blogs, so following this, read on to the following part 2....
Left click on the illustrations to enlarge them and so read the story....
The first of which came from C.E. "Titch" Allen's "Velocette Saga", originally published over 16 months from Jan.1969 to April 1970.
I realise "Titch" published this as a book titled "The Velocette Saga", but the photo quality in the magazine article is far superior....worth chasing down the copies....so often the original photos are not available in the second printing and the copies taken from the first article are inferior in quality etc...
The section we are interested in was titled "Talking with Bertie Goodman" and it featured in MCS, Feb. 1970 pages 68-76.
Read on.....

Continue on to the previous blog for part 2......