Overdue submitting and a discovery!

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–SG– I’m slowly discovering a house for journal cuttings and many others gathered during the last three years. One of many cuttings, from Motor Biking in 1957, above, reveals a letter and picture of a famous French Norton rider from the early twenties known as Robert Sexé and this I used to be going to position in Bob Holliday’s e book ‘The Unapproachable Norton’ – which features a interval picture of Robert.  

I used to be happy to search out, filed in the identical a part of the e book, three wonderful prints of Robert, despatched to me in 1990 by a gentleman in France known as Schulz.  Two are from 1923 and one (backside, the identical as within the press reducing) in all probability from the fifties.  Mr Schulz informed me that Robert received the Paris-Good occasion in 1923 and ‘Pa’ Norton gave him a silver cigarette case signed by the opposite Norton riders within the occasion.

And a small PS  – Holliday’s e book accommodates plenty of wonderful pictures – a few of which sadly have incorrect captions.  I pointed these out to him in 1980 and if anybody needs particulars, let me know and I can ship an inventory.

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