Greeves in Coventry Transport Museum

[John Wakefield]

In the 1963 ISDT Speed Track Tales results shows following riders on Greeves
P T Stirland (Gold)
B Sharp (Gold)
Mary Driver (Bronze)
M Banks (retired)
H G Carr (retired)
P Hitchcock (retired)
T J Sharp (retired)

[Colin Sparrow]

One non-starter, eight non-finishers. One of the non-finishers was Peter Rose on the 325 which was probably 2LHK, borrowed from his friend Albert Glassbrook.

It's all in my book...

[Brian Catt]

ISDT !962 records show 1 Non starter (Jean Robert) and 8 DNFs (Rose, Andersen DK, Colin B, Busine B, Gocher, Butler, and Coppuck. 4 Gold Medals (T Sharp, B Sharp, van Olst NL and Selling NL) Also 3 Bronze Medals ( Fidler CH, Clegg and Knott)

[John Wakefield]

Not a works bike but a customer model, it was sold to Jack Heath in Coventry probably for a rider sponsored by him.

Druid

John, Do you know what date it was sold to Jack Heath? It seems likely that it was supplied sometime in early 1963, the registration 811BHP was issued in July 1963 so it would have been too late for the 1962 ISDT and Richard Caldicott acquired it in that year and completed the Triumph conversion by September 1963. So looks like the bike may have been new when Caldicott bought it. Given that evidence it looks unlikely to have been ridden in the ISDT.

[druid]

John,
It left the factory on 13th September 1961.
Druid

[John Wakefield]

John,
It left the factory on 13th September 1961.
Druid

Thanks John
So if it was registered straight away it would have had a different reg number probably in the series ***AWK unless it remained unsold till 1963

[John Wakefield]

Coventry Transport Museum have confirmed frame number of 339MWL is 25DC139
They have no info on 24IN115 (811BHP) prior to its ownership with Richard Caldicott