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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Velocette....Bertie Goodman...BJG...the managing director who rode & tested his product....part 3
I've done several posts on Bertie Goodman, known to many as BJG and who was the last managing director of Veloce Ltd., manufacturers of Velocette motorcycles from 1905 to 1971. See..... Bertie Goodman part 1 and... Bertie Goodman part 2 Since then I've come across some more interesting photos of BJG in the photo library of the Vintage Motorcycle Club, Allen House, Wetmore Road, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire,
DE14 1TR to whom I credit the photos I've used which were originally from both "MotorCycling" and "The MotorCycle", the magazines for motorcycling in the UK of the day. The following photos were taken at the MIRA test facility ....
Changing the gearing on the Venom Clubman with the well known Velocette registration number.... SOX631
They always claimed BJG could really flatten himself to a great aerodynamic shape on a motorcycle...
Bernal Osborne the Midlands editor for "MotorCycling" on the naked Velocette Valiant 200cc twin, with BJG on SOX631 centre and an unknown rider on a Velocette Valiant Veeline model.
BJG, sans helmet on the Valiant Veeline....
Road testing the Velocette viceroy scooter and the LE mk.3 with Bernal Osborne..
BJG with a Velocette mk.3 LE
BJG in the Veloce carpark with a special ISDT Velocette likely in 1968
In the IOM at a VMCC rally with Club president of the time, Eric Thompson, BJG prepares to go for "a canter" on Eric's mk.1 KTT.
BJG in the Ulster GP on a mk.8, engine number KTT911, 1948 he was 3rd place in the event.
BJG in the 1949 Ulster GP, #56, engine number KTT911
Testing the new RS swinging arm frame in the IOM, note KTT engine
A strange photo, well the angle it was taken at....BJG during the unsuccesful 350 record attempt on the 100mph for 24hrs at Montlery, France in 1963.
Bertie with wife Maureen ( left} and likely George and Ethyl Denly (Goodman's) central at a ball.
BJG...Bertie Goodman as many people knew him.
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BMS in 1961 aboard a road test Velocette Venom Clubman Veeline
DQs Thruxton in the 1971 Castrol 6 hour Race, Amaroo Park,Sydney.
My co-rider, Dennis Fry, looking the consumate racer,probably the last to use a pudding basin helmet in competition...
DQs Thruxton in the 1971 Castrol 6 hour Race, Amaroo Park,Sydney.
DQ aboard his VMT during the first 2 hour stint, pictured in Brabham loop
VMT458 at the 2012 Australian Velocette Owners Club National Rally at Bundanoon, NSW.
DQ reunited with VMT458 after 32 years
VMT458 at the 2012 National Velocette Owners Club Rally at Bundanoon, NSW
Dennis Fry re-united with VMT458, DQs co-rider in the 1971 Castrol 6 hour race
Ready for another US Velo Ride
My 1962/1948 KSS/Scrambler Velo road bike, built in Canada in 1976 and imported into Sydney, Australia, May 2012 for use in local Australian Velo events......
DQ on his Velo Special
Riding in the Napa, Cal. area May 2010
DQ on his second KSS engined RS framed Velocette
Velo Thruxton at speed
North American Velo OC logo used for one of the Club's annual rally and rides
I've motorcycled since the early 1960s...both in Australia, the USA,NZ and UK to where my long suffering wife and I rode a 1972 BMW R50/5 motorcycle via the overland route through Asia in 1974. Careers in Animal Physiology and Automotive Instruments and now finally semi retired into music...as a banjoist in Trad./Dixieland Jazz bands.
Life for me is very interesting......
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