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Could you look at the attached poor quality photograph? I think the motorcycle might be a Douglas and I think I can see an acetylene headlight, oil plunger and what looks like belt drive. The registration mark appears to be WT 14.

The rider is my uncle, Robinson (Robin) Morris, born 1908, died 1929. This photo will have been taken in the late 1920s.

Robin Morris, email.

Despite its condition, the picture of uncle Robinson on his 2¾hp two-speed Douglas is charming, and with him in a semi-crouching racing pose over his motorcycle, it looks as though some fun was being had, which must have been light relief in what nationally and

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