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by JonWheeler
Fri Oct 24, 2025 1:13 pm
Forum: Where is it now ? What was it then?
Topic: Grandad’s bike in Ireland
Replies: 8
Views: 2727

Re: Grandad’s bike in Ireland

I’ll have to take tour word for that :D
by JonWheeler
Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:11 pm
Forum: Where is it now ? What was it then?
Topic: Grandad’s bike in Ireland
Replies: 8
Views: 2727

Re: Grandad’s bike in Ireland

Yes Roger it is. Did you spot a motorcycle outside the old bike shop and filling station? Not the same bike as it has a centre stand and Grandad isn’t guarding it!
by JonWheeler
Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:33 pm
Forum: Where is it now ? What was it then?
Topic: Grandad’s bike in Ireland
Replies: 8
Views: 2727

Re: Grandad’s bike in Ireland

Here’s the original bike shop and later business.
by JonWheeler
Wed Oct 22, 2025 11:05 pm
Forum: Where is it now ? What was it then?
Topic: Grandad’s bike in Ireland
Replies: 8
Views: 2727

Re: Grandad’s bike in Ireland

Wow Roger! That’s impressive stuff! Yes I bet this photo was taken very soon after he got the bike. Grandad was one of the Collier boys of Bunclody. They were an engineering family and had a very successful business selling and repairing bicycles, cars and Massey tractors, which is why he would have ...
by JonWheeler
Wed Oct 22, 2025 8:42 am
Forum: Where is it now ? What was it then?
Topic: Grandad’s bike in Ireland
Replies: 8
Views: 2727

Grandad’s bike in Ireland

Hello! Does anyone know which Red Hunter model this is?
My grandad had it as a lad before he got nailed down in marriage and he always told me how much he loved that ‘mortherboik’ he spent time as an Irish volunteer in WW2 over in Wales and Dorset, and this picture will have been taken shortly ...