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christinebrindley wrote:Hi all, Fred Brindley, was in fact Derek too, as is his youngest son. He was, as you say, the first mayor of Bawtry. The photograph is of Barry at the TT. Derek Jnr now operates out of the original Sabre Engineering site as Arrow engineering. The factory at Ranskill was sold and houses built on it. The other driver who had his car repair place opposite at Ranskill is Martin Witherington, his place has also now been built on. There were indeed many sidecar stars in the Retford Club family.

Christine, Martin Whittington surely? How are you and the kids by the way?

thankyou christine i hope your all well and good.my dad (also a frederick)had a sidecar on the road for work as a plumber from 1949 to 1966.ive still got the toolbox the chippies made in sheffield on a big housing job .best regards from another frederick jr

haha yes Merv of course Martin Whittington, think I am finally senile, comes with being a Grandma I think! The 'kids' are fine thanks!

Hi I can tell you a little of the history of Derek Brindley, In 1961 he had a motorcycle shop on church street Bawtry (now axholme interiors )It had a small workshop at the back where he used to repair motorbikes ,and work on his TT machine (1000cc Vincent ) ,that he partnered with Johnny Wath, in 1962 whilst riding in the TT they hit an 18 inch curb at over 120 mph Derek broke his jaw in five places and cracked his pelvis,Johnny got away with cuts and bruises, but refused to ride again which was a shame as the year before they had won a God for ninth place,I was fifteen at the time and part time teaboy ,

Get them told Christine. Now Fred .

i hope a book is written.ide buy it .too much history is lost and it needs preserving in my eyes

I agree 100%, Fred. It needs doing now, while there are still folk around who were personally involved. This way you get first hand information and all the good background stories. Another 20/30 years and all the details become mingled with 'myth and legend' -and so much harder to research. Don't leave it to the journalists - they cannot get anything right, haha!
Bob.

Fred Brindley....what a character. I remember in 1967 coming out of Governors Bridge in practice whilst passengering for Roy Pike.
Fred and Dave Saville his passenger were both rolling about on the pavement. They were not hurt at all...just laughing their heads off.
When he scrutineered one year...everyone ended up with a 'VOTE LIBERAL' sticker under the sidecar.
FRED...ONE OF A KIND... AND THE FATHER OF TWO OF THE VERY BEST SIDECAR DRIVERS WE HAVE KNOWN.

THANKS FOR THE LAUGHS FRED

All dont worry i am working on a book of our history!! And dick dont you mean 3 best driver? All british champions?? John, Derek and My Old man Barry. Not forgetting the other brother David!

Saw Olivers picture on facebook and I have to say, " you Brindleys do like the podium ". Your book should make intresting reading.

Fred and his sons .....what can I say....flipping awesome the lot of em....and of corse mr savile...I've never laughed so much....especially the chimey trips....yes it was Martin Whittington at the garage as I was his passenger from 87 to 92 didn't really get on off the outfit but on it we were a cracking team......
Iain Caulton



Good to see Oliver Brindley doing so well.....chip off the owd block

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=you ... h5mrqqkEjs hi all ,this video just came up on the retford page on fb about the Binghams

I was led to believe that SABRE was an acronym for Saville And Brindley Racing Equipe. Derek Snr often came to our pub in Misterton and we knew Dave from when my dad worked at Gringley Borstal. Dave's dad Doug also worked there.

All handy Lads too Christine the Retford Mafia !