Jack Taylor

Stockton's favourite son could turn his torch to anything

-  Simon Smythe

Jack Taylor bikes are a national treasure thanks to their high quality and beautiful detailing.

Not only that: Jack and his two brothers, Norman and Ken, have also acquired hero status in their native Stockton-on-Tees and have their own page on the borough council's website to prove it.

The "three canny lads", as they were called in a classic 1986 BBC North East documentary called The Bike Brothers, were accomplished racers and rode the first Tour of Britain in 1945.