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Passing of Tom Ollerton, Bultaco Pioneer.


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Sad to hear your news. My uncle, Ken Martin also worked for Anelays, some years later I had an ex-SSTD 199a from my cousin. So the story went my uncle made call to Spain to get a new 199a for my cousin.

Sold it many years ago, and been looking for it for the last 15 years. So if anyone has 199*6452, or the remnants of it please let me know.

Not sure if you've seen this Sherpa N write up.

http://www.bsaotter.com/the_dan_shorey_bultaco_sherpa_n_trials..html

 

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 Pommyjon I hope that you and your family can accept the condolences of complete strangers, me included, but I wonder where Bultaco would have been if your father had not got involved with modifying the 196cc trail bike! Your father is a part of history and possibly a legend for what he started. Maybe a club would honour your fathers memory and create an award for innovation or some such contribution to trials. To me Tom Ollerton is just as famous as many of the other well known names in this sport. 

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  • 7 months later...

Late to this but I am reasonably sure my Dad (Jim Crossley) introduced Tom to me at Barbon hillclimb. Dad was a founder member of Darwen MCC and rode one of John Anelay's motorcycles in the TT. At the time when I met him I had just got my first Sherpa and there was much discussed re the development that Tom and John had provided Bultaco for a certain SM to then claim as his own. I think the understanding they all had was engineering is engineering but business is business!   

 

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Sorry to here about Tom, only just seen this, my mum and dad knew Tom when he lived near the Strawbury Duck, we bought a new Yamaha XS250 from Anelays in 1978 and Tom did the deal, what a gentleman Tom was to deal with, my mum was the first for a pillion ride on the bike and we visited Toms house that evening to say thanks.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Bob from Darwen

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Sorry for your loss....

If time exists in heaven,
Do you still rise with the sun?
Do you and Mom share breakfast
Before your day has begun?

Can the heavens hear your laughter
As you sit and reminisce
About the time we had together
And other people that you miss?

And Daddy, do you still take walks
Along heaven's seas?
And when you gaze upon the surf,
Do you remember walks with me?

Are your standing with those brave young men
Upon its perfect shores?
Finally by their sides again,
Your comrades from the war.

Do you gather with your family
Beneath heaven's glow?
And gaze upon those mountains still
That once you called your home.

Is music all around you,
All those songs you held so dear?
Do you and Mom still sing together,
The way you did when you were here?

Do you ever have long talks with God
About those left behind?
Do you tell him all the stories
Of all our grand and treasured times?

I think that heaven must be grateful
To have you there each day,
To bring your easy laughter
And your silly sense of play.

And I'm sure that God already knows
The special father you had been
And how I wish that you were here
To guide my way again.

But I carry you inside my heart.
You are never far from me.
I see you in my smile
And in who I grew to be.

And I'm sure that on this Father's Day
God will help you celebrate
All those dads who changed the world with love.
What a party that will make!
 

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