John Surtees Collection

Only person to win world championships on 2 and 4 wheels

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John Surtees (MV) 1957 Senior TT
John Surtees (MV) prepares for a practice lap: 1957 Senior TT

John Surtees (MV) at Kates Cottage: 1956 Senior TT
The massed spectators crane forward to watch and hear John Surtees wail past Kates Cottage to win the 1956 Senior TT

John Surtees (MV) 1957 Senior TT
John Surtees (MV) on Bray Hill; heading for second place behind Bob McIntyre: 1957 Senior TT

1953 Junior Norton team
Ray Amm lines the lowline kneeler with his fellow works riders. Left to right; Ken Kavanagh, Ray Amm, Jack Brett and John Surtees

John Surtees MV 1957 Junior Ulster Grand Prix
John Surtees (MV) 1957 Junior Ulster Grand Prix

EX John Surtees NSU 1955 Lightweight Ulster Grand Prix
John Surtees (NSU) 1955 Lightweight Ulster Grand Prix

John Surtees (NSU) 1955 Lightweight Ulster Grand Prix

EX TT 1953 Zeller

John Surtees (MV) 1958 Senior TT
John Surtees (MV) at Signpost Corner in the 1958 Senior TT

John Surtees (Norton) 1955 Junior Ulster Grand Prix

Bob McIntyre (AJS) Geoff Duke (Gilera) John Surtees (Norton) 1954 Scarborough
3 racing superstars! Bob McIntyre (AJS) Geoff Duke (Gilera) John Surtees (Norton) 1954 Scarborough

Bob Anderson (Norton) and Bob Brown (Norton) 1960 Senior TT
Bob Anderson (Norton) and Bob Brown (Norton) start the 1960 Senior TT. The winner, John Surtees (MV) is No. 3

Bob Brown (Norton) John Surtees (MV) Bob Anderson (Norton) 1958 Senior TT
Third placed Bob Brown (Norton) winner John Surtees (MV) and runner-up Bob Anderson (Norton) 1958 Senior TT

John Hartle (MV) 1958 Senior TT
Needs a little attention! John Hartles 500 MV was reduced very expensive scrap when a leaking fuel tank made it catch fire at Governors Bridge in the 1958 Senior TT

John Surtees (Norton) 1952 Senior Ulster Grand Prix

McIntyre, Surtees and Hartle 1958 Senior Ulster Grand Prix
Bob McIntyre (2nd), winner John Surtees and third place John Hartle 1958 Senior Ulster Grand Prix

John Hartle, John Surtees and Bob McIntyre 1958 Senior Ulster Grand Prix

John Surtees (MV) winning the 1959 Junior Ulster Grand Prix

Geoff Duke, John Surtees, Bob Brown 1959 Junior Ulster Grand Prix

John Surtees (MV) 1959 Junior Ulster Grand Prix
The Victor. John Surtees (MV) 1959 Junior Ulster Grand Prix

John Hartle (MV), John Surtees (MV) and Mike Hailwood (Norton) 1960 Senior TT

John Surtees (MV) 1959 Junior TT
John Surtees (MV) at Braddan Bridge, 1959 Junior TT

John Surtees (Norton) 1955 Junior TT
John Surtees (Norton) at Union Mills, 1955 Junior TT

John Surtees (Norton) 1954 Junior TT
John Surtees (Norton) at Ballaugh Bridge, 1954 Junior TT

John Surtees (EMC) 1953 Ultra Lightweight TT practice. The forks broke at Ballaugh Bridge a few miles later on, putting John out of the meeting, missing his works Norton ride

John Surtees (MV) 1958 Junior TT

Memories
John Surtees and Murray Walker relive old memories of two and four wheel racing in the paddock before the 2007 Lap of Champios

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

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

1953 Ultra Lightweight pratice
In addition to his works Norton rides, John Surtees was contarcted to ride Dr Joe Ehrlichs 125 EMC at th3 1953 TT. Just two mile sfruther on from this shot at Rhencullen

Bob Geesons REG
Foremost in British racing specisls post-war was the REG. Designed, built and originally raced by Bob Geeson, it won many short-circuit races in the 1950s and 1960s, ridden by John Surtees

John Surtees - the early years
World two and four-wheeled champion John Surtees cut his racing teeth with this Vincent Gray Flash, seen here at a very damp Thruxton in 1952

A twin, then a four - for a third
Australian Bob Brown started practice for the 1957 Senior TT on a G45 Matchless. He was then drafted into the Gilera squad, finishing a fine third to team-leader Bob McIntyre and John Surtees (MV)

Creg ny Baa spectators in 1957
Thousands of day-trippers arrived on Senior TT day, 1957, to watch Bob McIntyre set the first ton lap of the Mountain coure. Many of them made their way to the Creg

John Surtees (Vincent) 1952 Thruxton
John Surtees (Vincent) at a very wet Thruxton 1952

John Surtees (Norton) 1955 Silverstone

John Surtees (MV) 1956 Senior TT

John Surtees (MV) 1958 Junior TT
John Surtees (MV) at Cronk ny Mona, winning the 1958 Junior TT

John Surtees (MV) 1959 Junior Ulster Grand Prix

John Surtees (MV) 1959 Junior Ulster Grand Prix

John Surtees (MV) 1959 Junior Ulster Grand Prix

John Surtees (MV) 1959 Junior Ulster Grand Prix

John Surtees (MV) 1960 Senior TT
John Surtees (MV) leaves Governors Bridge, 1960 Senior TT

John Surtees (MV) 1956 Junior TT

John Surtees (MV) 1956 Senior TT

Mike Hailwood (Norton); 1960 Senior TT
Mike Hailwood took third place in the 1960 Senior TT behind the MVs of John Surtees and John Hartle

John Hartle (MV): 1960 Senior TT
John Hartle at Union Mills on the four-cyclinder MV. John finished second to team mate John Surtees in the Senior, but won the Junior TT that year

John Surtees (MV) 1979 Parade Lap
John Surtees, MV, 1979 Parade Lap

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