Saturday, June 7, 2008
This is a short introduction to my business, KTT Services, which specialised in the repair and restoration of motorcycle and to some extent car instrumentation, usually from the past....
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioMcItBsR1qDz-w8JsMd1_5s9b01vmSGP-968-VsdbLwMEfhjw8vrs-2o3LunrzOZG35hKmrDtLGBynUJDSUkQTDtX93XUkeRxHvfN3QeoggiVjtUOw5hK8d0eofXP_xh1jdPo9mZ5CiKm/s320/KTT+Services+Logo-1.jpg)
This isn't starting anywhere in particular, chronologically, but I've a few of the interesting instruments I built for customers to share with you. In many instances I have had aluminium bodies cast and machined or metal spun, bezel rims
spun ( I have over 50 different rim varieties and shapes that I have manufactured and still supply the instrument trade worldwide) , dial faces screen printed and here I do the printing myself from a stock of over 700 different dial types.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyI8BbaygS2FStOoL0eiM-b53LK3ZyQVlZPz4gd2VjCA0clTDwF4dMxvO_u-fjw84_pz_uSx-SbTITkLues5LjuCSSMxW6qjgDG-Th_PBLWcGI0Pti_0AGTdU3r8RZI5xyJ0u5KlHhk6H-/s320/KTT+Services+shop,+46+The+Strand,Croydon-1.jpg)
Now this dial printing has spawned many "specials" and two illustrate this blog.... the large coloured one was for a customer who walked into my shop...
Talking of my shop, I've included a picture taken by a Japanese customer and judging by my beard colour it was over 10 years ago.....
This customer had a Harley Davidson he had customised with polished aluminium and paint
everywhere..he was really into Ned Kelly ( don't know who Ned Kelly was? "Google" the name...an Australian bushranger ..read outlaw..in the 1800's) and wanted the dial face to be him...Ned Kelly used a tin helmet that covered his head, just like in the dial and the pointer of the speedo was covered with a brass etching of a rifle...hmmm.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc0Bknop4W77gjN6gZ6KuiyqCvZAJhO93T_S-HPbapmm3i3YxMYvXxz9FDpayYwlRSV-9CImX3z7CkftoX2hMvyICQICiENh7IH9XbdSqiqaLJRb61m6tl_kB6kxA7DJyqo73oR4VICN_h/s320/Ned+Kelly+HD+dial+face.jpg)
T
he other , a set of instruments for a Velocette in
Germany, for Velo enthusiast Gert Boll, was for his Metisse Velo special...see the photos... Sadly it caught fire and burnt badly.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNgQeoImGYdiXn469koSgNHARWhyJIXa-Lg8QGQXlXLca__x-47_72IE8Xy2lCkUolfmFkgvcRHP2_NMogtVW13w2sBIRWM2VQVej5bFepzRLBwBqy31Psu9AIDA_gMVlZe_wbmGJfEJV8/s320/Gert+Boll%27s+special+Velo-2.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1DKoNftqBpLhnerPh2_gjBvKGUZc4z84NOjTg7nxdUCDnVI0lyCW70x4qi_IxD0m0XqN_rB75ZyEGCuF09hY9X_zBjxGDaPeQuf_9Wics72z6Bxv9PGLOhZ49cq7UzDv1_Y08hCG7WVIq/s320/Gert+Boll%27s+special+Velo-3.jpg)
The Velocette with the speedometer dial was the logo I adopted for my business... it , to me, epitomised what I did... rode Velocette's and fixed speedos.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioMcItBsR1qDz-w8JsMd1_5s9b01vmSGP-968-VsdbLwMEfhjw8vrs-2o3LunrzOZG35hKmrDtLGBynUJDSUkQTDtX93XUkeRxHvfN3QeoggiVjtUOw5hK8d0eofXP_xh1jdPo9mZ5CiKm/s320/KTT+Services+Logo-1.jpg)
Left click to enlarge photos.
Labels: KTT Services., My business
0 Comments:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)