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    On common ground

    Aug 13, 2019 3 minutes

    Let’s just say a lot: firstly, they were all Cheshire lads, who started scrambling in the 1950s; secondly, they all had successful careers on Dots, manufactured locally in Ellesmere Street, Manchester, which, thirdly, caught the eye of Derry Preston Cobb, (Greeves’s ‘talent scout’), leading to factory rides with the Essex manufacturer. Oh, and they were all big admirers of Dave Bickers.

    I met and talked to them all between October 2011 and March 2012 and here are some of their reminiscences.

    John Done,

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