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<blockquote data-quote="david bowen" data-source="post: 77710" data-attributes="member: 799"><p>Norman Brewster lived in the of Village Pirton Nr. Hitchin .8 miles from the factory. he and Ted Hampshire worked in the 1930s at Vincents and were of a small group that PCV use to talk to, Norman worked through the war at Vincent he was very hard of hearing, so was not called up, during the war Vincent service dept. was still open run by Norman, his mother a widow lived just up the road from our home in Walsworth, he use to visit his mother some days road testing a bike so at the age of 7/8 I heard the sounds of a Vincents series A. he had great talent he use to rebuild and test Mags and Dynamos on a rigg, he built that was in the service Dept even up to 1955, he built the Cadwell special that George Brown raced ? Vincents had a dance band Norman played in it I think blow the trumpet, the next time I meet Norman 1972 he was working in a Motor cycle shop in Hitchin ( Jimmy Lanes)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="david bowen, post: 77710, member: 799"] Norman Brewster lived in the of Village Pirton Nr. Hitchin .8 miles from the factory. he and Ted Hampshire worked in the 1930s at Vincents and were of a small group that PCV use to talk to, Norman worked through the war at Vincent he was very hard of hearing, so was not called up, during the war Vincent service dept. was still open run by Norman, his mother a widow lived just up the road from our home in Walsworth, he use to visit his mother some days road testing a bike so at the age of 7/8 I heard the sounds of a Vincents series A. he had great talent he use to rebuild and test Mags and Dynamos on a rigg, he built that was in the service Dept even up to 1955, he built the Cadwell special that George Brown raced ? Vincents had a dance band Norman played in it I think blow the trumpet, the next time I meet Norman 1972 he was working in a Motor cycle shop in Hitchin ( Jimmy Lanes) [/QUOTE]
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