Just saw your website with the pictures of staff taken in 1971. I worked for Gus Kuhn Motors as a mechanic a little before the photo was taken. The company a main dealer for Norton, Matchless and AJS. Among other things they were heavily into cutting edge technology and I helped fit a pair of Dunstall Hydraulic Discs to a friend's machine. VERY impressive. I also recall the arrival of the new and revolutionary ‘Fastback' Norton Commando with its very special Isolastic engine mount system.

Mick Andrew was still alive then. He and I worked together and got on really well. Jimmy Crewe was the Race Mechanic at the time and Dave Sleat was still in the parts department. I had left by the time Mick had his awful accident and I remember being really cut up by that.

Jimmy Crewe I found to be a really fun guy and I got along well with my immediate boss, John Leggett .

I liked working for Vince Davey and found him to be a good employer. He let me borrow one of the first pre-production Triumph Tridents for the weekend once. We had it as some sort of approval machine. I took it to Chesterfield in Derbyshire to see my girlfriend. That was SOME weekend and I was always grateful to Vince.

After I left I worked as Race Mechanic in the early days of Mocheck when we ran the Honda/Motor Cycle CB400/4 team of Faith, Hope and Charity in the TT with Tony Rutter, Alex Ayers, Ron Mellor, Norman Tricoglus, Phil Carpenter and Bernard Murray.

We ran bigger bikes later with Hugh Evans and Dennis Casement. Later still with Tom Herron, Stan Woods and others.

At the start we had our workshops in Kings Avenue and on many occasions I heard and saw Dave Sleat testing one of your BMW's past our workshop. Often we raced against each other the following weekends at Brands Hatch, Silverstone, Snetterton etc.

Apart from Mocheck, I later worked for RAT Motorcycles who were an official Ducati dealer. I even did my Ducati training in the factory in Bologna and have the certificates and photographs to prove it.

The importer at the time was Richard Avent and he joined me on the training along with Brett Jeffery and John, whose name escapes me and who worked directly for him, Bob Hill of Bob Hill Motorcycles in Hertford and his colleague Simon.

But I remember we had extreme difficulties a lot of the time working with the manufacturer. Very hard to get spares, technical bulletins provided ONLY in Italian and remarkably unreliable machines. This was just after the 851 4-valve model was launched along with the Indiana, 750SS and Paso.

Ian MacDonald and I worked together some years later when he also joined Mocheck.

Oh, I also recognise the face of Roger in the photo but I can't remember exactly why.