February Club Night talk by Frank Melling.
Well respected veteran journalist, motorcycle racer, author of over 30 fiction and non fiction books. He gave an interesting, lengthy and well delivered talk on his early life, his racing exploits and his interaction with British motorcycle manufacturers. He mainly concentrated on B.S.A. and his disapproval of the senior management’s abilities to produce the right models to counteract the increasing threat from Japanese manufacturers.
He eschewed digital assistance and just used blown up, card mounted, photographs to illustrate mainly bikes with which he was associated. Around 40 members and guests were present and enjoyed his 2 part presentation and asked several pertinent questions which got some lengthy answers.
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Sarah Brooke-Taylor receiving the Ladies Award for regularly attending our events on her WD Matchless. Chairman David Kendall doing the honours.