{"id":302,"date":"2013-11-19T19:48:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/?p=302"},"modified":"2013-11-19T19:48:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T19:48:07","slug":"revills-of-hathersage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Revill’s of Hathersage"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just had to post this lovely old photo that Richard Jones showed me at the autumn Stafford Show. Anyone here remember Revill’s of Main Road, Hathersage?<\/p>\n

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I wonder how much business was brought in by “wringing machine” repairs? Later wandering around the show I spotted this 1935 Sunbeam 350 twin-port was up for grabs amongst the auto-jumblers paradise.<\/p>\n

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It’s the same kind of ingenuity and inspiration that put men on the moon that gave rise to these next two creations.<\/p>\n

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And of course John Phizacklea made sure of a couple of stunning Sunbeams on the Wilts club stand. The recently finished Model 3 sits well alongside John’s own trials spec. Model 9.<\/p>\n

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One of the best machines at the show to my eye was this beautiful Rudge TT replica, tucked away in the corner of the VMCC stand. As far as I could tell it looks to be in a fantastic “as raced” condition complete with twin-floats, twin-fillers and cable operated damper. Just awesome.<\/p>\n

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And finally, there were of course some two-smokes too….\u00a0 One of my favourites was this beautifully prepared, late model RS250 Honda. Nice touches include the radial front brakes fitted to the custom-made fork bottoms. The equally gorgeous Joey Dunlop that features the single-sided swinger of the earlier model bikes can just be seen.<\/p>\n

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I just had to post this lovely old photo that Richard Jones showed me at the autumn Stafford Show. Anyone here remember Revill’s of Main Road, Hathersage? I wonder how much business was brought in by “wringing machine” repairs? Later … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[4,45,5,11,50,10,49],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-honda","tag-model-8","tag-rs250","tag-rudge","tag-stafford","tag-sunbeam","tag-ulster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t