Yep he goes that far back and a post war continental circus veteran former army officer and head boy at Dudley grammar schoolthe coat of arms on the front of his blue and white ringed helmet where the grammr schools.

He was sales manager of Colmore Depot Motor Cycle business the Morris and Riley car Distributors for Birmingham, and owned a Newsagents in Dudley, later went on to work for the late Len Vale Onslow MBE whose son Peter I sat at the same desk at school wiTH.

In my early years at the TT I used to hang out at the garage he shared with Pat Walsh who raced 125/203 MVs ended up buying one of Pats 125s and a 500 Norton and went with Albert and Pat in Pats Ex army Austin truck to my first rac. Together with their buddy TM Jack Harding they were a great help to myself and later Bob Heath in doing my first Manx and Bobs first TT when we all shared a couple of Kneens Taxis garages together. Albert always had another ex army guy Peter sombody who everyone always addressed as Colonel.