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| Bill Cakebread, Motorcycle Apprentice, Matchless - In Name & Reputation, Veloce Publishing, 2008 |
The caption suggested this is a posed photograph as the production line was never this tidy!
Bill Cakebread's book is a look at a working man's life in the British motorcycle industry in the 1960s. Good read.
Below is the back of the factory taken from Maxey Road in London. The large building behind is the Woolwich Arsenal, both buildings are long demolished and the area would be unrecognizable to the photographer.
Actors play building a motorcycle
ReplyDeleteAn interesting book if you can get ahold of it.
ReplyDeleteOne thing about the last pic, which cannot conveyed by your tiny phone screen, is how the factory absolutely LOOMS over the residences in the foreground.
I don’t get it. In this picture taken from Maxy Road, the street seems to be pointing downhill. On Google Streetview it’s flat.
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