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Found out today who has 1010371 1st UK batch .. Also imported bike Pre-UK Batch
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: K2-K6 on October 20, 2019, 11:03:56 AM ---It looks like the number you've read to me too.
I've not any contact with the photo as it's through searching, but it's linked in some way to him which I can't see. Not sure if it's him on the bike or he maybe took it, but just doesn't look like he is the photographer. I'll search more to see if anything else is related.
Traces back to here https://mobile.twitter.com/NTmidlands/status/1014613406962323462 and related to Shugborough which was his place, I thought.
Looking at it from photo perspective, I does actually have his sort of image "fingerprint" to it. The scale, composition (space above image etc) appear as his, the camera is laying on the ground and possibly fired with self timer as it looks like him in frame. A "selfie" possibly of him plus new bike?
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All adds up Nigel and the registration town (well City of London) is the same as his Bomber, so I guess he used the same dealer. I am certain that his monkey bike in previous reply photo was taken at Shugborough and that bike probably came from Honda main dealers Tippetts of Surbiton.
AshimotoK0:
I also found that the Science Museum has an early UK CB750 in storage.
Dear Ashley,
Thank you for your enquiry about the HONDA CB750 motorcycle.
I have searched our collections database and I can confirm that the Science Museum still has a HONDA CB750 in its collections:
Object number 1992-1064 - Honda CB750 KO 750cc motorcycle, 1969. Engine no.CB750E 1015403, frame no.CB750 1015142, registration no.GVX 50H
This item is currently held at our store in Wroughton. If you would like to discuss the possibility of viewing the motorcycle, please contact my colleague at the address below:
Science Museum Wroughton
Hackpen Lane
Wiltshire
SN4 9NS
kettle738:
I have a foot in both camps here......Bombers and CB750, here is a photo I guess many have seen, Lord Lichfield and his mate Rollo Feilding, Earl of Denbigh and their respective Bombers. This photo came about after I bought the 'Denbigh' bomber from a chap in Canterbury for the princely sum of £300 (it was a while ago, but even then it was not to be missed).... The bike had not been used for a long time and was amazingly original, the tool kit looked brand new, all the tools still had their quality control stickers intact.
The original green log book was with the bike, showing all its early history and that it was supplied by Tippets of Surbiton. I knew through the VJMC that Dave Jupp had a good relationship with Tippets, so I asked him if they kept any archives, he very kindly trawled through their old paperwork and came up with this amazing photo, which was simply priceless to me at the time.
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Rollo Feilding also has a CB750 connection, he was chairman of the motor trades association (or whatever it was called back then) which made him an extremely influential man.....he clearly had some clout within Honda UK as he became the first owner of the gold pre production 'Brighton' CB750, which had been due to be returned to Japan and might have been lost but for his intervention.
Mick.
AshimotoK0:
Wonderful story Mick ...which you have told me about before great that you shared on here, paricularly the photo with the royal seals on it.
Here is a shot of the Lords with the same Bombers from Lord L's biography book. Again, posted on here before by me but good for comparison with your photo.
Can anyone identify any of the other bikes?
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kettle738:
Fantastic photos, wonderful era.....but that particular group of 'bikers' were probably unlike most at the time.
Incidentally.....tomorrow is a significant day for me and for Ash, our first batch CB750s turn 50 years old, manufactured on the 22nd October 1969. Yours (Ash) is only a couple of numbers from mine, so they would have been made on the same day.
The specific date was supplied by Honda when Eamon (last owner of mine) was researching the history, it's somewhere in the file and if I can find it, I'll drag it out....but the file is well over a foot thick, Eamon was an unbelievably prolific letter writer and if he wanted to know something, he just persisted until every possible line of enquiry was exhausted.
The letters file is a who's who of 1960s through 1970s motorcycling, loads of famous names, racers, authors, journalists, companies that he wrote to seeking information, and every one retained....many with the envelopes.
Eamon was very well known and highly regarded within motorcycling circles so I suspect he probably elicited replies and information more readily than most would have done, but the main thing was his sheer persistence.
On another note, does anyone reproduce these quality control stickers?
Mick.
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