Tag: AVIAKIT

723 Memphis Jacket!

723 Memphis Jacket!

723 Memphis jacket available!

30-Nov-18 21:22

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Aviakit Mudlarker jacket

Aviakit Mudlarker jacket

The Mudlarker jacket is back! described as ‘the peak of motorcycle couture‘ by Motorcycle Sport in 1967, the Mudlarker is now available from Lewis Leathers once again, take a look below for more information on this great jacket.

20-Jan-12 18:05

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THE SUPER JET HELMET

THE SUPER JET HELMET

The Super Jet Helmet is back!

24-Dec-11 15:53

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Lewis Leathers and Triumph

Lewis Leathers and Triumph

Lewis Leathers has teamed up with Triumph Motorcycles to produce a range of jackets based on two different styles, the Whitfield and the Rathbone.

19-May-11 18:55

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Jacket Profile: Super Sportsman

Jacket Profile: Super Sportsman

 

First appearing in 1973, the designers at Lewis Leathers took the Sportsman back to the drawing board and introduced the Super Sportsman as an update of the earlier design.

24-Apr-11 19:08

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ROCKERS 1964

ROCKERS 1964

Here is an excerpt from BBC TV’s Panorama show in 1964, a good honest look at the Rockers opinion of the Mods cut with some nice street riding:-

26-Oct-10 16:15

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JIM JONES REVUE

JIM JONES REVUE

The Jim Jones Review have been a favourite at Lewis Leathers for some time now and travelling back from Paris yesterday we picked up the latest issue of France’s excellent Rock et Folk magazine at the Gare du Nord…

23-Oct-10 20:38

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All About AVIAKIT

All About AVIAKIT

People often ask us why we use the Aviakit logo as aninternal label in our jackets and what its significance is to Lewis Leathers asa company.

The answer lies in our association with flying clothing andkit in the first quarter of the 20th Century, looking at theearliest advertisements we have in the LL archive, it can be noted as early as1930 that the name AVIAKIT is used as the Telegram address as can be seen at the foot of the advertisement on the left.

At around the same time D Lewis Ltd produced woven labelswith the Aviakit brand name, the earliest type has the wording Shrunk BDA‘Rigmel’ below –which presumably means that they were first developed for theCivilian all-cotton Summer flying helmets featured in adverts of the time and werethen later used for the leather versions, D Lewis Ltd labels can also be seenin helmets from the same period.


26-Jun-10 16:02

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