Exhibition Images Collection (page 17)

A post-war special - the LEF
Post-WWII there were very few 250cc racing machines available, so many specials were made. The LEF was built by a motorcycle business run by 3 partners, Lewis, Ellis and Foster in Watford, Herts

1949 Junior TT
Les Graham parks up his broken AJS between Ballig Bridge and Laurel Bank. He was leading the race on the first lap. The schoolboy appears to be on a mission to secure his autograph

Les Graham and the AJS Porcupine
Les Graham won the inaugural 500cc World Championship on the AJS Porcupine. He failed to win at the TT when the magneto failed on the last lap whilst leading; he pushed in to finish 10th

1949 Gill Shield Trial
David Christian eyes the hazards ahead during the Peveril Clubs annual Gill Shield Trial. The Christian family ran the Lucas and Ford agencies on North Quay, Douglas for many years

Happy 90th Geoff
Geoff Duke celbrated his 90th birthday in 2013. This shows Geoff in practice on his International Norton for the 1949 Senior Clubman TT, his first TT victory

Creg ny Baa
Spectators are well protected against a cool wind as they take in the racing action. The Laxey Woollen Mills used to hire out Manx tartan blankets durig race days at the Creg

1949 Empire Trophy Race
A youthful Stirling Moss corers his 500cc Cooper Norton at Parkfield Corner in the early stages of his illustrious motor racing career

The first 350cc World Champion
Freddie Frith at Governrs Bridge, winning the 1949 Junior TT. Freddie has the distinstion of being the first ever 350cc World Champion in 1949

Race Transport - 1949 style
Cyril Hopwood brings his Clubman Royal Enfield ashore. The sidecar was probably so crammed with tools, leathers, helmet, wife that the only luggage space was on the bow of the sidecar

1949 Senior TT
After leading the 1949 Senior TT, magneto trouble silenced Les Grahams AJS Porcupine at Hillberry. He pushed the lifeless machine home for 10th place

Kerb-crawling
As George Brown thunders past on his 1000cc Vincent, Dennis Morgan appears to be using the kerb to keep his wheels in line of his AJS as they go through the Governors Bridge loop

The Vanwall man
Tony Vandervell tests Artie Bells 1948 Senior TT-winning Manx Norton. Vandervell, the pioneer of thin-wall bearings, used four Manx Norton heads on his prototype Thin Wall Special

Rules are Rules"
Felix Green practices for the 1948 Senior Clubman TT. He was not allowed to start as his Scott was not fitted (as standard) with a primary chaincase

A stroker rider all his racing life
Noel Mavrogordato with the EMC. In 1925 and six successive Manx he rode Scott with a 7th in the 1925 race as his best result

1948 Senior TT
Omobono Tenni flies Ballaugh Bridge on the 500 v-twin Moto Guzzi. A favourite of the Mandello concern, there is a life-size statue of Tenni in the Moto Guzzi Museum

11th Milestone - Drinkwaters Bend
For many years the 11th Milestone was named Drinkwater s. Ben Drinkwater was fatally injured at the bend when he fell, avoiding another rider, during the 1949 Junior TT

1948 Senior TT Norton team
Norton race manager Joe Craig (centre picture, dark suit) marshals his team fora photo shoot. No. 72 is Harold Daniell, No. 41 is Artie Bell and No. 62 is Ken Bills

The sole 1939 big Guzzi
With Italy gearing up for the forthcoming conflict, it was left to Maurice Cann to ridethe V-twin Guzzi in the 1939 Senior TT

Harold Daniell - pre and post-war TT victor
In 1938 Harold Daniell completed the first under-25 minute (24min.52.6 sec), 91, 00 plus mph, lap on his Norton in the Senior TT, a record which would stand for 12 years

A roadster in the works BMW team
When Karl Gall was sidelined from the 1939 Senior TT after a practice accident, Tim Reid was drafted in to the works BMW team of George Meier and Jock West

1939 Senior TT
Walter Rusk poses with the supercharged v-4 AJS. Despite giving out 55 b.h.p. Rusk only finished 11th in the Senior race. He was later to lap the Ulster GP Clady circuit at over 100 mph

Jock West - TT trophy hunter
Jock West prepares for the 1939 Senior TT, where he finished second to George Meier, both riding the supercharged BMW. After WWII

1938 Weigh-in
Johnny Galway (Excelsior, 29) and Marcel Simo (Terrot) await their turn ro weigh their bikes in for the 1938 Lightweight TT. Johnny finished 9th, Marcel retired

1938 Junior TT - Hillberry
Stanley Woods takes his Velocette Mk VIII through Hillberry in the 1938 Junior TT, his 9th TT victory

1938 Lightweight TT
1938 European Champion andf Lightweight TT winner Ewald Kluge at Windy Corner. The DKW was said to be the noisiest machine ever raced at the TT

Agression
Tommaso Omobono Tenni at Windy Corner in the 1937 Lightweight TT. A factory Moto Guzzi rider from 1933 to 1948, the 37 Lightweight was his only TT win

A Spanish / French combination
Marcel Simo was always Terrot-mounted for his TT rides from 1936 to 1939. The Isle of Man section of the Vintage MCC is twinned with the Terrot Club of France

A bunged up Norton
A paddock shot of Freddie Frith with his 350 Norton. The perforated tube protuding from the megaphone was a silencing device for riding the machuiines to the paddock

Seaside racing
In the 1930s racing cars wee re-introduced onto the Islands roads. The field for the 1935 Mannin Beg hairpins around outside the Sefton Hotel prior to racing round upper Douglas

A replica - for six and three quarter laps
In the 1935 Lightweight, H G Tyrell Smith came round Kates Cottage on his seventh and last lap, to find the road had been opened in error

Mountain Milestones - the first 60, 70, and 80 mph laps
Jimmy Simpson might have only won one TT, but his role in TT history is for being the first rider to lap at 60 (1924 Junior), 70 (1926 Senior) and 80 (1931 Senior)

Manx Legend: John Crasher White
The Mountain Course used to abound with bridges and jumps. This is John Crasher White making a front-wheel landing on the railway bridge at Union Mills in the 1934 Senior Manx

1934 Lightweight TT
After riding 25 TT races, with many leaderboard places, Jimmy Simpson finally rode this Lightweight Rudge to a maiden win

Charlie Dodson was an accomplished competitor in the Island on two and four wheels. In addition to wins in the 1928 and 1929 Senior TTs, he finished second in the Mannin Moar car race in a MG Magnette

Weighing in the big Velo
The pit pundits ponder his chances as Stanley Woods checks in the 500 Velocette that he rode into second place in the 1937 Senior TT

Chris Tattersall - racer / manufacturer
Chris Tattersall constructed and rode his CRSmachines from 1931 to 1953. TheCTS did not stand for Chris Tattersall Special as many thought, but Chris Tattersall St

1936 Junior TT
Ted Mellors (Mk VIII KTT Velocette) takes a tight line at Quarter Bridge, Ted finished third to Freddie Frith and Crasher White (Nnortons)

Go, Go, Go! - 1935 Mannin Moar
You can alamost hear Murray Walker setting the scene as the field leaves the grid on Douglas Promenade. The winner was Brian Lewis (Bugatti, 7)

George Formby in No Limit
George Formbys wife banned anyone taking images of him during th making of No Limit. But someone managed to bag this shot of Gitting sitting between Harold Rowell (left) and Jock Fairweather (right)

Jimmy Guthrie in the race of the decade
Jimmy Guthrie rounds Parliament Square, Ramsey in the 1935 Senior TT. Leading Stanley Woods (Guzzi) by 26 seconds going into the last lap

1935 Lightweight TT
10-times TT winner Stanley Woods (Guzzi) waits for Timekeeper Ebblewhite Snr to give him the nod to start the Lightweight TT. No 3, Ken Horton gives his Excelsior a richening tickle

Freddie Dixon - 2, 3 and four-wheel TT winner
Freddie Dixon was an unconventional mechanical genius. He designed and built the banking Douglas sidecar on which he won the 1923 Sidecar TT

Bray Hill - in reverse
Ferrddie Dixon (Riley) is about to turn right and climb Bray Hill in the 1934 Mannin Moar race. Dixon was the only person to win races on two, three and four wheels on the Island

Racing Rituals
In a Manx Grand Prix and TT career that spanned 7 years, John Crasher White only lived up to his nickname twice, both times in the Manx

Mike the Bikes Dad
In the 1930s, Stan Hailwoodwas an accomplished motor racer. This shot shows him at the 1933 Tourist Tropy, racing his MG Midget whch had been prepared for him by the factory

Ramsey Town Hall - twice removed
More a social history pic than just a picture of Ernie Thomas (Velocette). The wonderful Victorian Ramsey Town Hall and fire station, built in 1895

The Mechanical Marvel
Syd Gleave gave the Excelsior Mechanical Marvel its sole Island win in the 1933 Lightweight TT, beating runner-uo Charlie Dodson (New Imperial) by two munites and twenty seconds

1933 Mannin Moa
The Rt Hon. Brian Lewis - 2nd Baron Essendon rounds Government Offices to head up Bucks Road during the first Mannin Moar race in 1933

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