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A brief chat with... BOB STANLEY

With his retirement on the horizon, we thought it would be a good idea to have a chat with Bob Stanley, the man who has been instrumental in the restoration of many exhibits in Sammy Miller’s museum in the New Forest.

“When I started for him in 1972 he only had a couple of Broughs and a Vincent and they were on display at the old Highcliffe Road shop. That was a complex with a large warehouse out the back where the new Bultaco trials bikes were stored and for sale. Were you ever there?”

Before my time Bob, but what about you?

“I started with Sammy in 1972, so that’s 46 years that I’ve

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