A Comic Series postcard that was published by Bamforth & Co. Lt. of Holmfirth, Yorkshire. The card was printed in England.
The card was posted in Southsea using a 5d. stamp on Sunday the 16th. August 1970. It was sent to:
Mr. R. Fisher, Oaken Hedges, Fifth Road, Newbury, Berks.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Hello Old Pal, Well it's nice to be waited on like a lady, quite a change. I couldn't find a good card as you call it, but this one will do, eh? Just to say I haven't forgotten you and the work. From your old pal Brush."
Fabio Casartelli
So what else happened on the day that Brush posted the card?
Well, on the 16th. August 1970, Fabio Casartelli was born in Como, Italy. He was an Italian cyclist and an Olympic gold medallist who died in a crash during the 1995 Tour de France.
On the 18th. July, during the fifteenth stage of the 1995 Tour de France, Casartelli and a few other riders crashed on the descent of the Col de Portet d'Aspet in the Pyrenees.
Casartelli's head struck the concrete blocks along the roadway, causing severe head injuries and loss of consciousness.
While being flown to a local hospital by helicopter, Casartelli stopped breathing, and after numerous resuscitation attempts he was declared dead.
It has been argued that Casartelli would have survived if he had been wearing a cycle helmet. Gerard Porte, the Tour's senior doctor, claimed that protection was academic since the fatal blow was to an area of Casartelli's head that would not have been covered by a helmet.
However Michel Disteldorf, the French doctor who examined Casartelli's body on behalf of the coroner in Tarbes, where the rider was flown by helicopter after he crashed, stated that the point of impact was on the top of the skull, and that if Casartelli had been wearing a hard helmet "some injuries could have been avoided".
His Motorola team continued the Tour de France, crossing the finish line of the next stage first, side by side in Pau. The peloton ( the main body of riders in a cycle race) followed behind, riding slowly.
The Société du Tour de France awarded the stage prizes as normal, and the riders donated all the money won that day to a fund established for his family.
Three days after the accident Fabio Casartelli's teammate Lance Armstrong dedicated his stage finish to Casartelli by pointing at the sky as he rode over the finish line.
The Société du Tour de France and the Motorola team placed a memorial near where he crashed.
The memorial is a sundial arranged such that the sun's shadow highlights three dates — his birth and death and the 2nd. August, the day he won his Olympic gold medal.
The bicycle he was riding at the time of his fatal crash was placed in the chapel at the Madonna del Ghisallo, a church and museum to cyclists near his home.
In 1997, the young rider classification in the Tour de France was renamed "Souvenir Fabio Casartelli" in his honour.
Elvis Presley
Also on that day, the Number One chart hit record in the UK was 'The Wonder of You' by Elvis Presley.
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