Doug Hele
Douglas Lionel "Doug" Hele (13 July 1919 – 2 November 2001) was a pioneering British motorcycle engineer with Triumph and other firms: BSA, Douglas and Norton. He was born in Birmingham in 1919 and died in Hagley, Worcestershire on 2 November 2001.
Career
Described as an 'outstanding student' at King's Norton Secondary School. Hele started his career in engineering as an apprentice with the Austin Motor Company at the Longbridge factory in Birmingham where he worked throughout the Second World War. He moved on to Douglas Motorcycles in Bristol in 1945 where he worked as a draughtsman in the motorcycle design team under former Norton chief designer Walter Moore. Moore encouraged him to go to the Norton factory, where he helped Polish engineer Leo Kusmicki design and develop the Featherbed framed Manx Norton single-cylinder racing models that won world championships in the early 1950s.
After a short time at BSA where he worked on the 250cc single-cylinder racer with BSA chief designer Bert Hopwood he returned to Norton to continue development of the "Manx" and it is his 1961 version that is the most sought after by collectors today.
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Peppermint Man
by: Dick DaleMr. Peppermint Man, oh yeah (Peppermint Man)
It was his name (was his name)
Every girl he loved (girl he loved)
Well, he left her in vain (left her in vain)
Oh now, Mr. Peppermint Man
Peppermint Man
Every girl he loved now he left her in vain
Now well, you know him
and when you see him
by his striped shirt
He carries a real sign
Says "Have love will hurt"
Oh, Mr. Peppermint Man (Peppermint Man)
Peppermint Man (Peppermint Man)
Every girl he loved now he left her in vain
I once had a true love
She was faithful and true
There wasn't anything
That she, she wouldn't do
Yeah, 'til one day I come along (day I came along)
And took her by her hand (took her by her hand)
And said "Darling, my name is the Peppermint Man"
And he followed and followed his plan
And fall into the trap of the
Pepper-Peppermint Man
Mr. Peppermint Man (Peppermint Man)
Peppermint Man (Peppermint Man)
Every girl he loved now he left her in vain
Pepper, Pepper, Pepper