Times were tough at the start and Hall worked as a delivery driver by day and built wheels at night, whist his wife Jean ran the shop.

[1][4] Harry Hall had made good contacts in Europe when he travelled as a race mechanic, which enabled him to import the latest continental and Japanese equipment.

Hall sponsored some top amateur riders including Paul Sherwen, Graham Jones and Jeff Williams.

Fotheringham describes the arrangement "The sponsorship deal was uniquely incentivised; cyclists were given a bike, for which they would have to pay at the end of the season.

If, however, they managed to get photographs in a cycling magazine, during the season, of them and the bike, they would get credits to spend on kit at Hall's shop."

In later life, when his son Graham had taken over the running of the shop, Harry Hall started racing again for Tame Valley RC and won the British National and World Veterans' Championships in 1989 at the age of sixty.