| Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member | 1 of 12 Fri 22nd Mar 2013 4:10pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:768 I found this photograph of a 'Rudge', can someone say where the bike was registered because I don't know.
Rudge Motorbike
With Chair
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| Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 2 of 12 Fri 22nd Mar 2013 4:15pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5116 AB = Worcester  |
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| Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member Thread starter | 3 of 12 Fri 22nd Mar 2013 4:21pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:768 Thanks Midland Red, I was hoping for you to say Coventry of course! |
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| Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 4 of 12 Fri 22nd Mar 2013 4:32pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5116 OK! I had to look it up, but I always remember the Coventry registrations :
RW, WK, KV, VC, DU, HP
So you'll be able to look out for those! |
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| Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member Thread starter | 5 of 12 Fri 22nd Mar 2013 4:39pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:768 I've saved them thanks
So.. I'm learning....KV 7739
250cc |
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| lisajc Hinckley All posts by this member | 6 of 12 Mon 29th Apr 2013 1:17pm Member: Joined Apr 2013 Total posts:8 Can you tell me where I can find more information about Rudge bikes please?
My mother-in-laws cousin "made" a Holtaway-Rudge, which was his own modified grass track racing bike. But, we'd like to see if we can find any more about it.
thanks
Lisa Researching: Burdett, Shaw, Hyett, Dawson, Johnson and Smith in the Coventry area |
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| pixrobin Canley All posts by this member | 7 of 12 Fri 2nd May 2014 6:12pm Member: Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:909 
Sorry the image is a bit wonky - couldn't get it to lay flat. It's a copy from the Daily Mirror of 1920. Be interested to know what the road is in the foreground, or is it merely artistic licence. |
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| matchle55 Coventry All posts by this member | 8 of 12 Fri 2nd May 2014 7:18pm Member: Joined Feb 2014 Total posts:245 On 29th Apr 2013 1:17pm, lisajc said:
Can you tell me where I can find more information about Rudge bikes please?
The person that you need to speak to is Dave McMahon who is a member of the Vintage Motorcycle Club and is the Rudge marque specialist.
By coincidence he lives in Coventry and you can contact him through his business which is Dave Mac propshafts, Northey Rd. |
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| dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 9 of 12 Fri 2nd May 2014 8:01pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2772 On 2nd May 2014 6:12pm, pixrobin said:
Crow Lane.
The ornate building to the left was the design office and was pulled down for no good reason in the 1990s. The workshops to the right were destroyed in the Blitz but had not been used for years before the war anyway.
Be interested to know what the road is in the foreground, or is it merely artistic licence. |
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| argon New Milton All posts by this member | 10 of 12 Sat 27th Mar 2021 4:45pm Member: Joined Jun 2016 Total posts:332 Here is a short film clip, 1902 Rudge Whitworth bicycles video on YouTube. |
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| argon New Milton All posts by this member | 11 of 12 Sat 27th Mar 2021 6:24pm Member: Joined Jun 2016 Total posts:332 |
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| Rob Orland Historic Coventry All posts by this member | 12 of 12 Sun 28th Mar 2021 10:22am Webmaster: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:1512 Absolutely fascinating Argon, thank you. It's quite magical to see what literally looks like mis-shaped lumps of waste metal being turned into precision gears and machined parts before your very eyes! |
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