Exhibition Images Collection (page 19)

A Ramsey pitstop
Pre-WWI, refuelling was allawed at Ramsey. Percy Owen gets his Norton topped up in the Northern captal of the Island

When was a Brough not a Brough?
George Herman (Puch, 138) George Brough (Zenith, 98) and Alister Kirk (Triumph, 56) refualling at Braddan Bridge, 1913 TT

1913 Junior TT
I am not sure if that is a smile or grimace on the face of Douggie Alexander. Riding the v-twin Royal Enfield he lay second on the first lap

Bray Hill - 1912
Harold Cox (Forward) tackles Bray Hill in the 1912 Junior TT. The bag aroound his shoulder contains the tools required to repair the machine en-race

Island Bound - 1911
Three T.T, machines on the Liverpool landing stage prior to being taken to the Isle of Man for the 1911 TT. FY649 is a New Hudson and the other two Humbers - all with three-speed gears

1911 TT winner
Oliver Godfrey hardly looks out of breath after his winning ride in the 1911 Senior TT. His tall pit attendant is W. H. Billy Wells, importer of the Indian machines that took the first three places

Bray Hill -1914
An unknown competitor plunges down Bray Hill. There were no house, shops or traffic lights there in those days. Bray Hill was well outside of Douglas town which was mainly centred round the harbour

1914 Tourist Trophy
John Hancock speeds past the Sulby Glen Hotel in his Vauxhall durig the 1914 Tourist trophy

A Veloce - not a Velocette
No. 33 shows Cyril Pullin astride his inlet-over-exhaust Veloce at the 1913 TT. The machine suffered oiling problems during the race, finally finishing 22nd (last) in the Junior TT

1912 Senior TT
Percy Owen (Norton) rounds Cruickshanks Corner, Ramsey in th3e 1912 Senior. The rough state of the road shoule be noted - the following rider is in fact riding the pavement to miss the worst of

Avoiding the potholes
From the line taken by 1912 Senior TT winner Frank Applebee and his pursuer, it looks as if they were taking the pavement route to miss the bone-jarring potholes in the stretch of road leaving

The Timekeepers
Todays timekeepers have a more solubrious accomodation then they did in 1908! The scoreboard was a chalkboard from the local school

1908 RAC Tourist Trophy
Kenelm Lee Guinness takes Ramsey Hairpin in his Sunbeam. Guinness was a member of the famous brewing faily. He was also the inventor of the KLG plug

The Arrol-Johnston -a Scottish racing car
Italian driver, Scottish car - Manx roads. Dario Resta and riding mechanic take their Dumfried-built Arrol Johnson round Cronk ny Mona in the 1908 four-inch-race; the Tourist Trophy

The Heavy Car TT
In 1907 the RAC added the Heavy Touring Car class to the TT. The plywood screen was added to simulate a limousine bodywork

The original TT course
Used from 1907 to 1910, this is the St Johns course. Riders used to have to push their single-speed racers up Glen Helen

1907 Ballacraine
Frank Hulbert rounds the Ballacraine Hotel in the 1907 TT. Frank finished third behind Rem Fowler and Jack Marshall

A Lightweight racer
The 1907 Hillman-Coatelen, driven by Kenelm Lee Guinness was stripped to the bare minimum.Bodywork and mudguards were dispensed with

1906 - a Rolls Royce racer
Cs Rolls Rolls Royce is fuelled prior to his winning drive in the 1906 Tourist Trophy race, ran by the Automobile Club of Britain and Ireland, later caled the RAC

A Rolls-Royce racer
Charles Rolls is cheered along as he makes his winning way out of Peel in the 1906 Tourist Trophy in his Light Twenty

Charlie Collier Matchless The Marquis De Mouzilly St. Mars
Charlie Collier (Matchless) at Patzau, Austria. The Marquis de Mouzilly St. Mars

Bary Hill - 1904
Looking like a soap-box cerby, Charles Jarrott pilots his Wolseley down Bray Hill in the Gordon Bennett eliminating trials

Gordon Bennett qualifying trial - 1904
Selwyn F Edge (Napier) leaves the line at the Maughold speed trial. The Isle of Man Government accomodated road closures for such events

1904 - the first car race on the Island
Selwyn F Edge takes his 13.7 litre Napier round the Bungalow in the Gordon Bennett Qualifying Trials, the first ever motor race on the Isle of Man

All-rounder Freddie Dixon
Unconventional Freddie Dixon; no goggles, a screen will suffice. Footboards instead of footrests. But no one else has won races on two, three and four wheels on the Island

1922 Private Norton owners camp
Graham Walker (fifth from left) with a group of Norton riders from the 1922 Senior TT. Although a works rider, Graham always took a keen interst with the amatuer riders

Freddie Dixon - the wayward genius
A rapt audience watches Freddie Dixon round Governors Bridge on his single Indian in the 1922 Senior. Dixon always rode without goggles and favoured footboards instead of footpegs

1922 Lightweight TT - selective assembly
Geoff Davison gets his Levis refuelled during his Lightweight TT winning ride. Team leader Geoff hand-picked the lightest components when building his machine

Desolation Road 1921 Junior TT
Harold Petty struggles to fit a new inner tube to his Coulson as the mist coses in during the 1921 Junior TT. Fram lapping around fifty minutes, he took1 h. 33m

1922 Sun Vitesse - disc-valve pioneers
The 1922 Sun TT models with their disc-valves pre-dated the German and Japanese method of induction controlby at least three decades. From the three TT entries, two finished well behind the winners

1921 Sun Vitesse workshop
The Birmingham-based Sun Vitesse team preparing for the 250cc class of the 1921 Junior TT. Both disc-valve two strokes finished, averaging just over 37 mph after five hours of racing - and not last

So nearly a winner
With a rear tyre looking suspiciously soft, Jim Whalley takes Ramsey Hairpin on his Massey Arran. Taking over the ride halfway through practice week he led the race until he spilled at Windy Corner

The Weight-in
A Velocette two-stroke is weighed and details noted before the 1922 Lightweight class of the Junior TT

BSA team members 1921
In 1921 BSA made an all-out assault on the Senior TT with a new model. It was a disaster, all six model failed to finish, BSA stayed away from racing until the 1950s when they won many Clubman races

A long way behind the winner
Gus Kuhn with his 1922 Sun Vitesse. He finished the Lightweight race 12th, 90 minutes behind the winner, Geoff Davison (Levis), having endured over five and a half hours in the saddle

The 1922 OK Supreme Lightweight team
1922 saw the TT debut of Wal Handley (26), a messenger for OK Supreme. Seeing the course for the first time, and without the benefit of a tour round

The Keppel Gate
Spectators check their programmes as an Ivy rider makes his way down from Kates Cottage to the Creg. No tarmac, just rolled stones

The NSU team
Even though the TT did not pass the Hawthorn Inn, at Greeba, the NSU team made it their headquarters for the 1910 TT. J F Sirett poses on his 3 1/2 hp model; he was classified a non-finisher as he

Silencer and Brake tests, St. Johns 1910
To ensure that competitors machines complied with the ACUs touring standards, a set of tests were held near the Tynwald Mills before the races

1912 Senior TT
Senior TT winner Frank Applebee (Scott) passes through Keppel Gate, with Tates Cottage in the background. Before regular marshalling took place for practicing

A pioneering two-stroke
In 1909 J Leno should have been listed in TT history as one of the first two-stroke riders to run in the TT, He non-started the Premo after colliding with another rider in practice

Lost to his brother
Charlie Collier was leading the 1909 TT race (a single race for singles and multis) when a belt fastener broke, handing victory to his sibling Harry, also Matchless mounted

1908 Singles TT
Winner of the 1908 Singles TT, Jack Marshall poses before the start. His Triumph is equipped with a comperehensive toolkit on the rear carrier

Kirk Michael Corner, 1909 Senior TT
Oliver Godfrey (Rex) takes Kirk Michael corner on the St. Johns course. Godfrey finished fourth this year but won the 1911 Senior on an Indian

Ballacraine - turn left
Coming along from the St Johns starting area, these two pioneers are about to turn left round the Ballacraine Hotel and start the climb that will take them over Creg Willys Hill and on to Kirk Michael

Graham Walker
Its not always sunny! Graham Walker leaves the Villla Marina on his Douglas

Mike the Bike
A selection of Mike Hailwood pictures

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