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Titch Allen - Founder of the VMCC
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<blockquote data-quote="Hugo Myatt" data-source="post: 15458" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>With Regard to Titch and his love of Brough Superiors the following may be of interest. In 1991 there was a press story that Brough Superior were having a renaissance led by a certain Simon Piers-Thurlow. There was to be a brand new SS 100 offered to the market. Coincidently at that particular time I had negotiated an astonishing professional contract and was uniquely and improbably ‘flush’. Now I have always had a soft spot for Broughs. (OK, I know the joke.) Perhaps it is romanticism. My father actually knew T.E.Lawrence. Anyway in a moment of brio I wrote off to the ‘Brough Superior Company’. In return I received a brochure of the ‘New’ machine, plus a personal letter from Simon Piers-Thurlow regarding my requirements, specification and performance, etc.</p><p>Frankly, I forgot about it. Probably, it was about the time the Rapide went bang and was sent off to Bob Dunn. However about a year later and coinciding with a time that I was now financially pallid, wan, if not completely anaemic, I received a phone call.</p><p>After ascertaining that I was the person in question, the caller, with a cut glass accent, informing me that he was from the Brough Superior Company and enquired of me as to when it would be convenient for me to come into the works for a fitting. PCV never went that far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hugo Myatt, post: 15458, member: 99"] With Regard to Titch and his love of Brough Superiors the following may be of interest. In 1991 there was a press story that Brough Superior were having a renaissance led by a certain Simon Piers-Thurlow. There was to be a brand new SS 100 offered to the market. Coincidently at that particular time I had negotiated an astonishing professional contract and was uniquely and improbably ‘flush’. Now I have always had a soft spot for Broughs. (OK, I know the joke.) Perhaps it is romanticism. My father actually knew T.E.Lawrence. Anyway in a moment of brio I wrote off to the ‘Brough Superior Company’. In return I received a brochure of the ‘New’ machine, plus a personal letter from Simon Piers-Thurlow regarding my requirements, specification and performance, etc. Frankly, I forgot about it. Probably, it was about the time the Rapide went bang and was sent off to Bob Dunn. However about a year later and coinciding with a time that I was now financially pallid, wan, if not completely anaemic, I received a phone call. After ascertaining that I was the person in question, the caller, with a cut glass accent, informing me that he was from the Brough Superior Company and enquired of me as to when it would be convenient for me to come into the works for a fitting. PCV never went that far. [/QUOTE]
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