Riding Instruction video from the 60's.

I also like the Triumph Tigress scooter. Another classic.
Now there's a classic. Although I quickly progressed to a Tiger Cub, I actually learned to ride on a 175 Tigress (belonged to my Mother). Do you remember the adverts in the magazines - a big guy at the Meriden factory with welding goggles on, holding up a Tigress frame he'd just finished? I think Triumph were trying to tell us they were really motorcycles, not poncey scooters!
By the way, there's a beautiful one on display at the National Motorcycle Museum.
 
And it's stablemate the BSA Sunbeam.
I bought up a defunct dealer's stock which included a complete set of original Villiers service tools which a dealer had to buy to become an official Villiers dealer with a list of the items written on a card.....

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and on the reverse of that card was.........

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