Exhibition Images Collection (page 13)

Race Transport 1964 style
A photograph from Michelle Duffs racing scrapbooks. The Yamaha team used VW vans during their 1964 GP campaign. The team manager, Takehiko Haswegawa (kneeling) was laterto be President of Yamaha

Harry Stanford and the Mead Norton
Harry Stanford rode the Mead Norton in the 1960 Lightweight TT. A specials short-stroke Manx engine was married to an Albion 5-speed gearbox. The machine sold at Bonhams for c. £ 19, 000 in 2011

Suzuki star
One of Suzukis guests at TT 2010 is Frank Perris. A works Suzuki rider from 1962 to 1966, Franks best TT was second place in the 1963 125 TT

Jim Redman - a treble-double winner
Jim Redman took unprecedented treble-double TT victoires. On the Honda-4 he won both Lightweight and Junior TTs from 1963 to 1965, and six world championships

The first Suzuki team - 1960
One yeat fater Honda made their debut, it was the run of Suzuki to face the Mountain course. Riders and machanics pose outside Fernleigh Hotel, Douglas

The first Suzuki
Toshio Matsumoto sets off to practice for the 1960 Ultra Lightweight. Interested spectators incude MV mechanic Arturo Magni (above Matsumotos head), and Dr Joe Ehrlich (shirt and tie)

Eddie Crooks - MZ rider - twice
In 1960 Manxman Eddie Crooks rode 125 and 250 MZ in the TT. In 1998 he also starred on an MZ, this time riding naked on a 250 in the hit film Waking Ned

Every picture tells a story
Stan Hailwood listens intently to the BBCs report on the Senior TT, along with Shells Lew Ellis. His delight at Mikes third win of the week is self-evident in the second picture - he never got

1965 Lightweight TT
Bill Ivy pushes the v-4 Yamaha out of Governors Bridge, he had been holding second place when he fell at Brandywell

A works Honda at the Southern 100
John Hartle took the 1961 Southern 100 Championship, but a poor start meant he had to work hard for the victory

1961 Southern 100 Junior Championship
Spot the winner! Alan Shepherd (AJS, 5) and Phil Read (Norton, 4) cross the line together in the Junior Championship. It was adjudged a dead heat

Bob and the Bianchi
Bob McIntyre reflects on his unreliable Bianchi twin, which ley him down just after Sulby Bridge in the 1961 Junior TT

Gilberto Milani
Son of works Gilera rider Alberto, Gilberto rode the TT, usually on the Aermacchi, for six years, before being team manager for Walter Villa who won three 25oc world titles

The Little and Large of Sidecars
Rudi Kurths Honda-powered CAT - an excecise in compactness - compared to Peter Gerrishs 500 Vincent. In all fairness, the Vincent was a last-minute substitution for the twin-cylinder DMW that Peter

A winning return
After a four-year lay-ff, John Hartle returned to TT racing to win the inaugural 750 Production TT, on this Geoff-Duke sponsored Thruxton Bonneville

Chris Conn bottoms out the Higley Norton on Bray Hill in the 1967 Senior TT

Aika San
During TT 2009 Hondas legendary mechanic and later team manager Aika San called to seek out photos of his races years at the TT

The Saltbox MCC
In 1967 my old club, the Saltbox MCC of BigginHill, Kent took part in the TT parade of clubs. We are lined up near Summerland for the run down the Promenade

Travelling marshal
After a 26-year MGP and TT career - on both solo and sidecars - Bill Beevers carried out travelling marshal dutis in the 1960s

Guiseppe Pattonis racer
Conceived in the 60s, still being raced today. Fred Stevens raced the machines for Liverpool dealer Bill Hannah. Guiseppes son Roberto has redesigned the Italian twin-cyinder machines to be a force

1953 1000cc Clubman TT
Part-time Laxey rsident Richard Madsen-Mygdal lays a black line from his Vincents rear wheel as he takes Quarter Bridge. Leading after the first lap

1952 Lightweight TT
Winner of the first 250cc World Chamionship, Bruno Ruffo flies his Guzzi along the Braddan Straight in his only TT appearance, where he finished 6th

1953 Lightweight TT
Bob Geeson on Bray Hill with his home-designed and built ohc twin. In later years the REG was raced with success on short circuits by John Surtees and Derek Minter

earoling
Manx Grand Prix leader board man, long-time TT rider and travelling marshal Albert Moule demnstrates the clingability of the tyres on his v125 Mondial

The pavement-racing-line
Carlo Ubbiali teaches MV team-mate Tarquinio Provini the long, sweeping fast line round Parkfield Corner in the 1958 125 TT. He had practised the art of pabement raceing the previous year (inset)

The Gallarate four
John Hartle accelerates past the Grandstand in the 1958 Senior TT. A contemporary and team mate of John Surtees, he rode works Norton and MV

Memories
If you can remember when your bike was crated on, and you queued up in Finch Road fot your temporary Manx road fund licence - congratulations - you have reached a pensionable age

Bob Mac
50 years before John McGuinness broke the 130 mph barrier, Bob McIntyre took this 500 Gilera to unknown heights with the first ton lap

Manx Legend; Tom Thorp
Tom Thorp was never destined to reach the top spot on the podium Tom is seen here at Cronk ny Mona in the 1959 Junior; leading on the last lap, the engine expired

1957 Junior TT
Australias first World Champion. 1957 Junior winner Keith Campbell heels his Guzzi single through Union Mills

Breath man - BREATH
Terry Folwell looks overwhelmed by the Nursey Bends on the Clypse Course, practicing for the 1959 Sidecar TT

Hondas first year
" I herby avow my intention that I will participate in the TT race and I proclaim with my fellow empoyees that I will pour all my energy

The Pastmaster on his favourite circuit
Stanley Woods (350 Moto Guzzi). 35 years after he first raced on the Island, he returned to take a modern Moto Guzzi round on a demonstration lap during the Golden Jubilee races

Bill Barnett - Reynolds Tubing
Reynolds Tubing sent Bill Barnett to service the Featherbed frames which they had produced, but he was also pressed into modifications and reapiring all forms of racing metalwork

The first Honda - 1959 Ultra Lightweight TT
Naomi Taniguchi round the Manx Arms during Hondas first surjourn into TT racing - the rest is history

1959 Ultra Lightweight TT
Ken Kavanagh (Ducati) at Parkfield Corner

The Moto Guzzi V-8
Conceived in 1955, the fabulous Guzzi V-8 was developed into a potential world championship challenger in 1957, only for Moto Guzzi to pull out of GP racing at the end of the year

1959 Lightweight TT
Siegfried Lohmann takes Parkfield Corner on his German Adler. He finished 10th. It was suggested the Adler design formed the basis of the Ariel Arrow

1959 Formula One race
Californian Ed La Belle brought this BMW and a Junior Norton for the 1959 races. Asked why he dropped the Norton in the Junior

Eight non-stop laps
Forget your four-lap dashes. In 1957, 41-year old Arthur Wheeler rode the eight-lap Senior TT non-stop on the 500 Guzzi single

Garage Art
Local TT enthusiasts / artist Norman McKibbins tribute to Bob McIntyre, pictured during the 1959 Junior TT

Memories of pioneering days
A conversation worth eavesdropping on. 1907 Twins winner Rem Fowler (left) and 1908 Single victor Jack Marshall compare notes, Taken atthe Golden Jubilee TT

Wakter - a BMW Zellert
Walter Zeller accelerates towards Bray Hill in the 1957 Senior. It was a last miute decision to fit the full fairing on the morning of the race

Francis Beart - master tuner
For many years the lime-green Manx Nortons from the Surrey tuning stable of Francis Beart were the fastest machines after the works mutis

The flying ace and the Manx ace
WWII flying ace Douglas Bader signs an autograph for triple Manx winner Don Crossley. Douglas, who briefly lived on-Island in his youth, was a guest at the 1957 Manx Grand Prix

Signpost Corner - 1959
What has changed in the last 52 years. The estate built behind the stonewall, road surface, riding gear including helmets - thats about the start of it

A BMW with a borrowed fairing
Florian Camathias and Hilmar Cecco take their BMW round the Manx Arms on the Clypse course. They finished second in the race and the world championship that year

TT comfort
TT, public, EX 1959 Cover

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