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TonyS · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:40 am Post subject: THE OLYMPICS ARE COMING

THE OLYMPICS ARE COMING

Hi All,

Below are 3 links showing the excellent work being done by Les Brown and Roger Coupe in promoting Rochdales
in the forthcoming Olympic Games and the Olympic Torch procession through Rochdale on June 23rd 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4cDIujAh_0&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj38DwjipgI&feature=channel&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm4cQsA7hTk&feature=relmfu

http://www.link4life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=c.showArticle&articleID=561

Well done to both of you, now lets have as many Rochdale’s as possible there on Saturday June 23rd.

If any Guest on the website reading this owned a Rochdale car in the past or know any details of one or have photographs of one in the past or now, please contact :-
Tony Stanton on rochdale-olympic@talktalk.net

And if any Guest worked at Rochdale Motor Panels in the 1950s or 1960s or lived in Hudson Street or Littledale Street, Rochdale in the past
or know any details or have photographs of this area in the 50s or 60s, please contact :-
Les Brown on lesbrown46@hotmail.co.uk
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TonyS · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:20 pm Post subject:

Hi Les,

I would just like to add my congratulations to the growing list, what with the success of the Manchester show, the outstanding results of the Rochdale Olympics, the book is just going to be fantastic. WELL DONE.

Also thanks to Keith Hamer, Jason Hoffman, Roger Coupe, Howard Evans, Calvin Rae, David Mayers, Andrew Roan and Les for presenting 8 immaculate Rochdale Cars; you did yourselves and the club proud.

And one person we are all forgetting is Pat Brown, she must have endured quite a lot over the last 6 months. But she has given Les and the club her full support,
so a big thank you Pat from all the members of the ROC.

I have searched the web for photos of the cars from Saturday and moved them to a site I admin http://www.flickr.com/groups/rochdale_cars/pool/
may be more to follow, keep looking.
Those of you who have taken photos on the day please send me copies, to rochdale-olympic@talktalk.net and I will put them in the ROC database.

The best film I found on Youtube is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KWMWOERz-o
read what it says under the film and then go full screen from the 2 minute mark.

I was very upset I could not get the parts to repair “Duffy” in time to get to the event, I am now even more upset I missed such an historic occasion.

Well done to everybody involved in making it such a success.

Kind regards

Tony and “Duffy”
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TonyS · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:19 am Post subject:

Listen to Torch Relay - Rochdale's Olympic cars by TheTimes: Valentine Low finds out about a fibreglass kit-car with an Olympic connection

http://soundcloud.com/thetimes/torch-relay-rochdale
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TonyS · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:26 pm Post subject:

The latest youtube film from Les

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siWc604s-6I
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TonyS · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 8:34 am Post subject:

http://www.hagertyinsurance.co.uk/Hagerty-Online/Articles/All-lifestyle-articles/2012/07/05/Rochdale-lights-torch-to-its-Olympic-past
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TonyS · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:02 am Post subject:

I like the headline on this one?

Rochdale Olympics at Rochdale by DUFFY8, on Flickr
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TonyS · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:37 am Post subject:

Made by Les Brown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHwQspSGU6Q&feature=related
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