Walter Robert Laidlaw.

[JoJo357]

This is somewhat belated. *God Speed.

Walter Robert Laidlaw Obituary 2024

https://youtu.be/rcMwm5d8SkM?si=SJo5kacI3Beynres*(YouTube podcast video). "How I started and built Laidlaw's Harley-Davidson''.
*Below picture is from a story told by Bob Laidlaw, on this YouTube video podcast, on how he purchased this lot of motorcycles from a NY H-D Dealership, owned by Walter A. Kohl.
It's cRaZy how motorcycle stories can be bizarrely related. Check out the Walter A. Kohl story below.
----> A motorcycle graveyard | Old Bike Australasia <----

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*M.A.D.*

[Chris Haynes]

In 1970 Bob had a chain link cage on the side of his shop on Garvey. I don't know how long it had been there. It was packed with non running ratty old Knucks and Pans. They probably from this purchase. Any one you wanted could be had for $250.00. My second Knuck came from that cage.

[grease monkey]

I met Walter Kohl at the very first Canadian Vintage Meet in Welland Ontario circa 1973. I had a bunch of Rudge parts and a Russian Speedway chassis I was trying to sell.In fact I think I was the first vendor ever at a CVMG Meet. An interesting character rode up to my spot on what looked like a New Old Stock OHV Zundapp. KS601 ? Of course it was Walter and he had a laugh at my effort to unload such obscure parts and half jokingly said there was no future in selling old motorcycle parts ! Sadly I never visited him in Lockport and heard there was a major fire in his warehouse.

[JoJo357]

I met Walter Kohl at the very first Canadian Vintage Meet in Welland Ontario circa 1973. I had a bunch of Rudge parts and a Russian Speedway chassis I was trying to sell.In fact I think I was the first vendor ever at a CVMG Meet. An interesting character rode up to my spot on what looked like a New Old Stock OHV Zundapp. KS601 ? Of course it was Walter and he had a laugh at my effort to unload such obscure parts and half jokingly said there was no future in selling old motorcycle parts ! Sadly I never visited him in Lockport and heard there was a major fire in his warehouse.

This story explains the fire Barry.

The Abandoned Kohl's Cycle Sales (Lockport, NY): A Motorcycle Graveyard

*M.A.D.*

[grease monkey]

Thanks. The print is too small for me as I am visually impaired.