Britain’s Olympic walking gold medallist, Don Thompson, trying out the new indoor “walking machine” with the inventor, Mr Leslie Dennis, standing by. Mr Dennis, a war-blinded athlete, invented the machine to overcome his own difficulty in finding athletes able to accompany him on training walks. Invaluable for walking work-outs, the machine can also be adjusted for running practice.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29500, 29 April 1961, Page 5
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58Britain’s Olympic walking gold medallist, Don Thompson, trying out the new indoor “walking machine” with the inventor, Mr Leslie Dennis, standing by. Mr Dennis, a war-blinded athlete, invented the machine to overcome his own difficulty in finding athletes able to accompany him on training walks. Invaluable for walking work-outs, the machine can also be adjusted for running practice. Press, Volume C, Issue 29500, 29 April 1961, Page 5
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