WE FEW, WE HAPPY FEW, WE BAND of BROTHERS...
Apr 16, 2019
3 minutes
Words: Peter Parnham
Photographs:
Gary Chapman (modern statics), archive (timely others)
Without a shadow of doubt, they were the ‘dream team’ of Machin and Saunders garage at West Barkwith, near Wragby, Lincolnshire – diminutive ace rider Steve Machin and his wife June; June’s brother and general engine man Dave Saunders; top engineer Don Briggs and ‘ideas man’ Tony Dawson (of ‘Scitsu’ bikes and rev-counters fame). This ‘Band of Brothers’ truly lived up to the ‘Scitsu’ mantra of ‘Selfish Conduct Inhibits Sporting Union’
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