Drag, Sprints & Records

George Brown started motor cycling on a Raleigh - appropriate to his Nottingham birthplace - and his competitive spirit soon turned him to trials and grassracking. Meeting Philip Vincent of the Vincent HRD Company in Stevenage led to a job in their experimental shop in 1934. Naturally, he spent as much time as possible testing the products at the highest possible speeds. Although the police around Stevenage were pretty tolerant of the works chaps, George overdid it one day and was hauled before the bench. When asked what speed the miscreant had been doing, the police officer declared that his stop watch made it 110 mph. "Impossible!" said The Beak, and forthwith dismissed the charge.  The mark of a champion!

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