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Fond memories of Thunderball test

The picture on page 29 of your July issue of The Classic MotorCycle showing the lovely actress Luciana Paluzzi playing ‘Fiona Volpe’ astride the James Bond Thunderball BSA A65 brought back some happy memories for me.

At that time in 1965, my late wife Anne and myself were responsible for the day-to-day running of the old-established family motorcycle business Bryants of Biggleswade for the owner Elsie Bryant – Anne’s mother and my mother-in-law.

The film was due to be shown in the town’s Regent cinema, and as the area’s oldest

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