Geoff Burton has 49 scooters stored on two levels in his garage, and every one was made in Britain.
There isn’t a Vespa or Lambretta in this collection of some very rare, some weird and some wonderful machines.
In all, there are scooters manufactured by 14 different marques and, if you didn’t realise many of them existed, you’re not alone.
It’s the reason Geoff became hooked in the first place, after spotting a Triumph Tigress on eBay when he was working overseas as an engineer.
“If I see a beautifully restored, painted and chromed scooter I’ll think ‘that’s nice’ and walk straight past. But if I see one that needs a lot of TLC, I’ll fall in love”
“When I saw the Tigress advertised I thought, ‘That’s interesting, I didn’t know Triumph made scooters,’” recalls the 71-year-old.
In the 20 or so years since, he has amassed a truly extraordinary variety of machinery.
“I was given a book about British scooters, and that was a really big mistake,” he adds. “When I realised how many there were, I had to go for it and see what I could get.
“I get a bee in my bonnet and there’s something driving me to do silly things. If they made it, I wanted one.”
A blue James scooter (middle), flanked by a Triumph pair
