Greeves sitting on a then-new version for 1965 of the Greeves Anglian 250 cc trials bike, 24 pounds (11 kg) lighter and with a new design front fork[1]
Born
5 June 1906
Lyons, France
Died
15 July 1993 (1993-07-16) (aged 87)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
Nationality
British
Occupation(s)
Motorcycle designer and manufacturer
Bert Greeves MBE (born Oscar Bertram Greeves, 5 June 1906 – 15 July 1993) was a British engineer who founded Invacar Ltd in 1942 and Greeves motor cycles in 1953.[2]
^Motor Cycle, 9 September 1965, pp.361, 364 Accessed 7 September 2015
^Reynolds, Jim (6 October 1993). "Obituary: Bert Greeves". The Independent. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
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footballers, including three captains of the Geelong Football Club, two Carji Greeves medallists and played 582 games for Geelong, between them. The Rankins...
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