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It's been a little while since I posted one of these

Pete of Eat the Rich fame let me nick this one

This is Dave Farrington's T140 powered chop Sporting a reversed head and what looks like a Cobb Customs side draft kit.

I've got an unpolished intake I picked up cheap some time ago in the Longsue parts box, I do like the look of them!

 you can also find Clay Cobb's store on ebay

A career in British Engineering

I never met Sue's Dad, John Boughton as he had already passed away when I met Sue, after a long illness with Parkinson's.
One of the things we have inherited after Joan, Sue's Mum, passed away was all his certificates.
We were sorting out getting his apprenticeship certificate framed and it struck me that the collection represented one man's career in British Engineering and given his training with the Birmingham Small Arms Co. Ltd. with whom he served 5 years 9 months  of apprenticeship including a couple of months in the motorcycle section, not long I give you but enough to earn his place on this blog!! (apparently it was his brother Fred who was the biker in the family)  So I decided that I would post the certs up as a tribute to the man and the industry he represented.

Sadly like many he fell victim to the decline of British Industry and in the late 80's after many years working for British Steel he was made redundant. 

Returning to education he gained a degree at Durham and worked as a small business consultant in Washington,Tyne & Wear before being diagnosed with Parkinson's and having to take early retirement

John Edward Boughton

1929 - 2001

RIP