Very early video about Aero Leather

[HoosierDaddy]

 

[Carrie @ Thurston Bros.]

Very cool...thanks for posting this up!

 

[wdw]

Really enjoyed that. Great to see them all in their younger days.

 

[Peacoat]

Good find, Van. Thanks for posting.

 

[Superfluous]

Great video. Thanks HD.

 

[ton312]

Very cool to see this!

 

[Fanch]

HD thanks for sharing this bit of a blast from the past!

 

[Mickiemac]

What a neat back story - is that little Holly and her brother Danny on the playground with their mother and dad?

 

[tmitchell59]

love them glasses,,fascinating Video. I saw another from 1987 on my screen. Are there more than these two up now?

 

[dudewuttheheck]

That's an awesome find! I never knew any of that info.

 

[nick123]

Cool AF.

 

[Davy Crockett]

This is actually a news report from Border Television (a local television channel covering Cumbria and the south of Scotland), and I believe the female interviewer is Fiona Armstrong who went on to become famous as a National News Reader .

D

 

[Sir Jacket]

Are the shades on display in the Aero showroom?

 

[HoosierDaddy]

 

[rocketeer]

Great Vid and thanks for sharing. I wonder if that machine in the 83 clip was the one that my Battersea contract A2 was made on

 

[Sir Jacket]

Wonder if the London shop was Sam Walker.

 

[Charlie_1961]

Great Vid and thanks for sharing. I wonder if that machine in the 83 clip was the one that my Battersea contract A2 was made on

Sorry for asking - I came across this site by accident. Did this chap / person own / run the the second hand clothes shop at the bottom end of Falcon Road, Battersea? I lived 2 miles away. Just that when I was a lot younger I brought 4 leather flying jackets - 3 painted, 1 plain. I enjoyed them, but out grew them - I still have them stored with many other jackets I brought when I was 16/17/18/19/20.

 

[rocketeer]

Sorry for asking - I came across this site by accident. Did this chap / person own / run the the second hand clothes shop at the bottom end of Falcon Road, Battersea? I lived 2 miles away. Just that when I was a lot younger I brought 4 leather flying jackets - 3 painted, 1 plain. I enjoyed them, but out grew them - I still have them stored with many other jackets I brought when I was 16/17/18/19/20.

Spot on mate, I discovered the shop around 1980 looking for motorcycle parts at Russell Motors. Think it was number 67 Falcon Road.
Check out my story here:
It's just for a laugh, most on here have probably read it

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/the-road-to-galashiels.68659/#post-1562005

 

[Sloan1874]

Wonder if the London shop was Sam Walker.

That relationship didn't end well. Occasionally, Sam Walker Aero jackets turn up on eBay.

 

[Edward]

That relationship didn't end well. Occasionally, Sam Walker Aero jackets turn up on eBay.

If they're Aero at all.... As I recall, the relationship terminated around the time that Sam Walker started having the Aero designs they had stocked copied overseas, to sell under their own label. There's a legend that some of them are Aero jackets labelled as Sam Walker, though I believe Ken has confirmed that while some of them might be, they left the factory with Aero labels only.