Sir, – The Honda 50 memories reminded me of the NSU Quickly, which was a less powerful type of motorbike with a bicycle pedal to start the engine (“Trusty Honda 50 is gone but not forgotten”, Letters, March 21st). My old neighbour Johnny Hallinan had one in Midleton, Co Cork, in the 1950s.
As he started pedalling to get it going, we children would run out in front of him, much to his irritation, to see if we could run “quicker than the Quickly“. It never failed to make us laugh out loud as he sped off into the distance. - Yours etc,
JOHN GAFFNEY,
Carrick-on-Shannon,
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Co Leitrim.
Galway’s print legacy
Sir, – Bríd Miller remembers her mother’s Honda 50 conveying her to work in Donegal as the only woman printer and typesetter in Ireland, as she understood it (Letters, March 30th).
In Galway at that time, there was a four-page newspaper published every Tuesday titled The Galway Observer. It was published by a family called the Scotts at a premises in Abbeygate Street.
One of the Scotts, Tilly Scott, was also a woman printer and typesetter who ran the paper. It ceased publication in 1966 with two of the staff moving to work in the Connacht Tribune in Market Street to continue their careers. They were John Robinson, a nephew of Tilly who was also a typesetter/compositor, and Johnny McMahon, chief reporter. - Yours, etc,
JOE O’FLAHERTY,
Grattan Road,
Galway.
