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In this area in the 60s there were enough crews to make almost a full grid at most circuits

Dave Ajax & Malcolm Caley (500 Manx)
John Parker (Triumph)
John Simper (Triumph)
Mick Harris (Norton)
Reg Gooch(Triumph)
Alan Butler (Triumph)
Peter Scales (Triumph)
Jim Pinkney (Triumph)
Jack Rook (BSA)
Ted Young (Triumph & Vincent)
Mick Ruocco (Vincent)
Adrian Swindells (Triumph)
Jim Spencely (Triumph)


There were some others too whose names escape me for the mo.

Anyone any info on any of these please?

Just in case anyone mentions me amongst that lot I know where I am and what has happened in the intervening period :lachtot: :lachtot:

Two more just came to mind:

Will Hawkes
Roy Pike

[quote="Bob B"]In this area in the 60s there were enough crews to make almost a full grid at most circuits Bob in answer to info wanted.
Brian Ayres & Dave Wallace I spoke to Dave at Lydden 3yrs ago,havnt seen Brian for years
Dave Ajax & Malcolm Caley (500 Manx) I last spoke to Dave in about early 90s, living in Enfield then,I am told that Malcom lives in the St.Albans area
John Parker (Triumph) living in Thialand
John Simper (Triumph) Iiving in Ipswich and still involved in racing
Mick Harris (Norton) dont know his location,used to own motor world,most of us purchased our spares from him. He now sells antiques.
Reg Gooch(Triumph) Still lives in London at the same adress
Alan Butler & Colin Jewsbury (Triumph) Alan was diagnosed with ms sadly he died in early 80s Colin lives very close to Rye House speedway & kart track
Peter Scales (Triumph) Sold his m/c shop in Waltham Abbey,moved to Holland and opened another one
Jim Pinkney (Triumph) Location unknown
Jack Rook (BSA) Jack died in the 80s
Ted Young (Triumph & Vincent) Ted is dead,he was the inventor of the kneeler,his passenger was his brother Cliff,who was my carpenter when i lived in Enfield, Lewis Young was a solo rider in GPs, his other brothers had a company called Arch Motors who built formula one race car chassis for lots of top teams
Mick Ruocco (Vincent) Mick lives in I.O.M. Port Erin. Had great success on the Mogvin
Adrian Swindells (Triumph) whereabouts unknown
Jim Spencely (Triumph) whereabouts unknown
Roy Pike I last saw Roy at the first meeting at Rockingham,he was thinking of racing again,i have since heard that he is very ill
Ray Munns & Barry Dean Ray now lives in Germany & Barry lives in Waltham Abbey
Will Hawkes now runs a vintage m/c business in Norfolk i believe
Dave Bishop Lives in Rayleigh
Ian Mcgee & Gordon Lundburg Ian is still racing and lives in Hitchin, Gordon stopped racing a couple of years ago through injury and is living on his boat in Kingston(not Jamaica) Steve Collet Now lives in Eastbourne Peter Saville Whereabouts unknown
and theres 19 teams. more when i remember. John. Chris Storey& passengers various Len Bleach & passengers various

Adrian Swindells was part of the Curley Speedequip team set up in the early seventies - they used Norton Atlas engines. One of that team was Barry Lock who emigrated to Canada after we bought the Kirby BSA from him.

Peter Scales went to Holland - did some dragracing and got Ton Pels into the sport.
Pels later build a double-engined Triumph with Puma heads.
Nowadays Ton is director of the Zodiac firm in Holland, Roel Koedam (who bought the Triumph from Ton) is now the official works rider for Zodiac, they are building a very nice dragracer at the moment, with a complete home-made engine.

see http://www.zodiacracing.nl" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

for a picture of Peter Scales: http://www.zodiac.nl/dragrace/index2.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Cheers
John

p.s. don't know anything further regarding Peter Scales...

sorry, wrong link to the picture.

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Peter Scales on the left, Ton Pels next to him

Bryan Ayres is well & kickin living in the Yeovil area. See him now & again. Riding wise he is dabbling at Pre 65 Trials on an outfit & Pre 85 scrambleing also with an outfit as a driver.

Idris,The Brian Ayers i was talking about was always a driver with Dave Wallace as passenger.he packed up racing in 66 or 67. I think you might be talking about Brian Ayers who rode with Dereck Jones (crazy horse). John.

John and others - many thanx for replies and info Sat here a while doing the nostalgia thing

I used to work with a Peter Saville in Thornwood near Epping in the early 70s when i was an apprentice diesel fitter I'm sure he said he raced sidecars, seem to remember him having a deformed left or right hand.

ade@cambs wrote:I used to work with a Peter Saville in Thornwood near Epping in the early 70s when i was an apprentice diesel fitter I'm sure he said he raced sidecars, seem to remember him having a deformed left or right hand.

your right, thats Peter. John.

Just to resurrect an ancient thread - my brother passengered Steve Collet on his SAAB outfit. Anyone got his contact details I'd like to put big brother back in touch.

Cheers

Rich

Hello, Steve . . . I had a mate who wanted to take up racing, and managed to team up as sidecar 'passenger' with a character called Jack Rook — who had constructed his own kneeler outfit. The pic. is taken at Brand's Hatch on the notorious Paddock Hill Bend in March 1966.

8 Jack Rook's 650 BSA kneeler outfit with sidecar man Pete Sutton.

Jack agreed that I could go to his home to take some sketches for an illustration of the outfit. It was the first 'proper' tech. illustration I (or anyone else on our college course) had attempted, so it effectively broke through a 'glass ceiling' of sorts, taking us all to the next level of confidence.

9 My tech. illustration of the outfit.

I presume this was the same Jack Rook for whom you were searching. Hope this was helpful.

Regards



Matchle55

Dave Wheeler and Bill Garwood both living in Cornwall now.....or I should say,last time I spoke to Bill they were

Just discovered that my pic. of Jack & Pete to which I referred above was over the account limit . . . shall try again in a while. Regret to learn that Jack Rook died in the '80s.