I sent the very entertaining Eric Sulley story (BDN, March) to Harry Harper, who was Honda’s North West area manager during Sulley’s era. He points out that Eric’s “finest chapter” slogan was misquoted. It should be, “The finest chapters have yet to be written.”
Also, the caption to the picture of Eric with his secretary “Kaye Brown” was incorrect, the lady he is with is his long-suffering wife, Muriel.
I worked with Harry at Honda from 1989-2009 as the area manager for the North East and Scotland. During our time together, we exchanged many hilarious “Eric” stories.
At one of his seminars, he introduced Honda’s CB250 Super Dream as a Yamaha RD250 beater, and Alan Mountain, the York dealer, shouted out, “Fuuuucking hell, you could buy two Yamahas for that”! That one was definitely not a scripted interruption!
BDN has already apologised to Kaye Brown for the caption error. Ed
Eddy Good
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