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Category: Letters

Model making Triumph

3rd December 2020 Sam Hewitt Letters

Years ago, I had a Triumph 1911 Roadster, which was in a sorry state when acquired, and which I restored. A good while later, I started to make a brass model of it but only

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Long-owned Ajay

25th November 2020 Sam Hewitt Letters

I have always enjoyed reading the AJS articles published in The Classic MotorCycle magazine over the years. The August 2020 edition about your father’s AJS, and how to identify with letters and numerals on the

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Setting the record straight

20th November 2020 Sam Hewitt Letters

It was a complete surprise to discover my picture and Alan Turner’s article ‘A Long Call From Sussex’ in the November 2020 edition of The Classic MotorCycle (p36-38), as I’m the current owner of the

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‘It’s nothing like a Brough’

30th October 2020 Sam Hewitt Letters

It always feels a bit strange, suddenly coming across your own name in print (TCM, September 2020) and then seeing YC 2125! I remember it well of course, particularly that tasteful shade of purple chosen

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Just like my Beesa

27th October 2020 Sam Hewitt Letters

Having picked up the July issue of TCM, I got to page 88 and on seeing the BSA, I thought: ‘Wow, I have one of those.’ Well, it’s my wife’s. She gave me permission to

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Carnaby and specials

21st October 2020 Sam Hewitt Letters

I very much enjoyed Richard Rosenthal’s article about airfield race circuits (July 2020 issue).I thought you might be interested in the attached photo which shows John Cronshaw – but not on a Gold Star. He

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Recorded memories

19th October 2020 Sam Hewitt Letters

Reading the piece about the Rickman brothers in the October 2020 issue, reminded me of a jaunt I made in 1960 to Beenham Park. A year earlier, I’d sold my Hornby Dublo train set for

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Memories of Phoenix

1st October 2020 Sam Hewitt Letters

It was such a wonderful surprise to see the article about Ernie Barrett’s Phoenix JAP racers in the July issue. I knew Ernie from about 1952 until he died in the early 1970s. From 1954

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Perton pictures

29th September 2020 Sam Hewitt Letters

A very interesting and enjoyable theme on old airfield circuits (July 2020). I also remember Perton, as mentioned by Bob Torrens in last month’s letters pages, but as a budding amateur photographer rather than as

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T-bird the tops

27th September 2020 Sam Hewitt Letters

With regards to the feature in the August issue, ‘Triumph’s best ever?’, about the Thunderbird, I had a sprung hub Thunderbird from 1951; definitely the best ever. Soon after I bought it I got called

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