This photo brings back so many memories from days gone by. I can still visualize John Penton on a fork truck where the operator was standing, not sitting as he operated it, zooming around in the Penton R & D building moving crates of Penton Steel Tankers. Like everything John does, he was really moving and getting his job done in record time, John didn't need any mirrors on that fork truck as EVERYONE knew to stay the heck out of the way !
As I think back to that time, and knowing what I know now, quite possibly he was organizing the bikes according to what updates they had from the factory. Can you imagine what it was like having bikes in inventory with the cast iron cylinders and also have some of the new ones with the aluminum top-ends that made the others, shall we say, less desirable!
The Penton R & D building may not have been an extremely large building, but what all went on there and happened there was simply amazing. I remember working on our bikes late into the night getting them ready to load into the Cycleliner in the morning and heading to an event. All sorts of folks would be stopping by when they saw the lights on, Jack and Dane seemed to know them all and they played host to ever changing crowd of curious onlookers.