Maybe my all-time favorite motorcycle photo! From the March 1941 issue of The Motorcycle, "The 23-stone RASC sergeant instructor pictured, was a former London bus driver with a 15 year accident free driving record." He has got to be the biggest motorcyclist I've ever seen!

Mark

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POOR MOTORCYCLE

regards,

Ramon

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Yes! and that poor AJS........

Cheers,

Lex

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Good eye there Lex....

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Great photo! This chap may be 23 stone, but how tall is he! He looks like a giant compared to the other blokes!

I wonder if he trained them for Welbikes as well... ...Ian

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It's interesting that even by 1941, they still hadn't made a battledress big enough and he was still kitted out in Service Dress.

I wonder if anyone ever dared say to his face that 'RASC' stood for 'Run Away, Someone's Coming'....

his son might have been an instructor when I was in Yeovil driver training in the early 1960s for the RASC he drove a sit up and beg ford popular from the back seat no driver front seat if you looked at him you were looking at his belt

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If you look at the faces of those being instructed, you can see some restrained smiles on their faces......

Service dress was still in use throughout WW2, often by depot instructional staff, and during 1940 many second-line formations in the BEF were still wearing service dress rather than BD........you can guarantee that this guy was "special measure" for most of his kit, the material used for his BD probably being sufficient for at least 3 standard size outfits..........

I'd love to seen the look on the faces of the NCO's and the like on the day that chap joined.

and on the QM's face, he takes what size boots?

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The man he is talking to wrote the song .You fat b-----d you fat b-----d who ate all the pies.