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Cecil Kimber’s first motorbike was this single-speed Rex, which he soon dismantled to study its mechanicals.
Manchester. This gave him a useful grounding for his subsequent career, as he told the same audience. ‘Compared with many of you here, my early engineering training was of the most sketchy nature. It must be remembered that in the early 1900s the opportunities for technical training in automobile engineering were very scant as compared with the facilities provided today. Evening classes at the Manchester Technical School – taking quite the wrong
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Chapter One: Early Life
subjects – helped a bit,’ he related. ‘Actually, the subject that stood me in the best stead in my later business life was accountancy, and to those of you with your eyes on high administrative posts in the years to come, I would strongly recommend a study of this subject... after all, if you go into business you do it with one object and that is to make money. If you don’t make money you won’t be in business very long...’