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Derek Whalley (Guzzi) 1987 Senior Manx Grand Prix

Russ Jones (Yamaha) 1987 Senior Manx Grand Prix

Jim Wyse (Kawasaki) 1987 Senior Manx Grand Prix

Who put that building there?
Ray Amms Proboscis Norton lies crumpled against a barrack wall at Aintree in 1954. Ray escaped unhurst

A meeting of two minds
With his trade-mark Tyrolian hat, Allan Jefferies chats with Bill Lomas; the MV team were testing the bikes at the Creg. Both Bill

Ferguss tear-away ride
With the tail fairing of his Guzzi starting to tear away, Fergus Anderson still has 37 miles to go before pitting. A mechanic quickly tore away the section to allow Fergus to finish fourth behind

Sartorial speedster
John Mockett (Norton) 1954 Clubman Junior

Development Davis
Ted Davis spent his working days as test rider and development engineer at Vincents. With a 500cc limit on the Sidecar TT, he rode this G45 Matchless and Canterbury sidecar in the 1954 Sidecar TT

Where did the power go?
Heading for Bray Hill, Howard German checks to see if the petrol tap had turned itself off. A new, reinforced petrol pipe had delaminated, blocking the main jet

Just Testing"
Vic Willoughby, technical editor for Motorcycling tries Ken Swallows leading-link forked G45 Matchless along the Mountain Mile

Alan Dudley Ward - Ecurie Skint
There appears to be some sucking of teeth as Alan Dudley Ward pilots his DW special around Thruxton in 1953. A well-respected tuner of Triumph

Right bike - wrong bike
Albert Moule repares for another practice lap. One year, after refuelling himself in the Cadburys tent, he set off down Bray Hill again, to realise that he was astride someone elses Norton!

A rapid Velo
Cecil Sandford racing Arthur Taylors MOV Velocette at Oulton Parks first meeting in 1953. Cecil was already 125cc world champion, but loved ridig the little bike

Walter Schneider - world champion
That front wheel fairing must add a lot to the unsprung weight! Walter Schneider and Hans Strauss prepare for practice on their BMW outfit

1955 Silverstone
Eric Oliver may have designed the first British streamlined racing sidecar, but his technical advantage must have been compromised by his passengers leathers billowing open

The Multi-talented Mr Dow
Eddie Dow takes Parkfield on his way to winning the 1955 Senior Clubmans TT. His helmet bears the insignia of the British Army trials team

Tarquinios practice mount
Tarquinio Provini practising for his first TT, the 1955 Ultra Lightweight TT. Quite why he is riding a road machine is unclear. Provini went on to win four TTs and two world championships

Bob McIntyre - 1955 Junior
Leading the 1955 Junior TT on his privateer Norton for the first four laps, Bob McIntyre finally finished second to Bill Lomas on the works Guzzi

The first Southern 100 winner
Barely a mile from his Castletown home, Derek Ennett (AJS) won the first ever race at the Southern 100 in 1955. The 4, 25-mile Bolown circuit has remained exactly the same to this day

The Glencrutchery Road Nightingale
Graham Walker giving his TT race report for the BBC from the Grandstand. A TT winner, team manager, he was the first of the great commentators. But not everyone liked it, as shown in this telegram

The Wooler
WWII Bomber Command hangers were still in place at Silverstone in 1954. Arnold Jones races a 500cc Wooler, a transverse flat-four, built in Middlesex. Silverstone was first used for racing in 1949

1954 Silverstone Vintage Race
Before the Vintage Motor Cycle Club started race meetings, the British Motorcycle Racing Club (BEMSEE) ran a Vintage race at their Silverstone Saturday meeting from 1950

A true Lightweight
In 1954 the Spanish Montesa team rode these 125cc Sprint models in their first TT. We are not sure who the beefy lifter is: Murray Walker is behind his left elbow, next to him is Cyril Quantrill

Ken Kavanagh 350 Guzzi
The championship-winning Moto Guzzi did not waste weight on paint; the fairings were left unpainted for the 1954 season. The cylinder just below Ken Kavanaghs knee is the mail petro tank

Sales Director - Road Tester
Veloce director Bertie Goodman believed in testing the firms products. In early 1954, he brought the development spring-frame Velo, fitted wih a racing engine

The Clypse Course 1954 - 1959

From airport scratcher to TT victor
Ray Amm slides through Quarter Bridge winning the 1954 Senior TT. When he first came to the Island in 1951 no available before the TT, so he rode in races on the Andreas Airfield on an AJS (inset)

Sidecar Legends - Willhelm Noll
The 1954 and 1956 World Championship-winning pair of Willhelm Noll and (hidden) passenger Fritz Cron at Cronk ny Mona on the Clypse Course

1950 Hillberry hillclimb
In the early 1950s, the Peveril Motorcycle and Light Car Club held hillclimbs. This one started from Hillberry, and finished at the Creg. A selection of two and four-wheel competitors await their turn

Geoff Duke
A selection of Geoff Duke shots

Ted Frend - AJS Porcupine
Ted Frend, team-mate of Les Graham, takes his AJS through Braddan Bridge in the 1950 Senior TT, Originally designed by Joe Craig with supercharger

A reliable Plumstead power plant
Bob McIntyre;s 7R edured both the Junior and Senior MGPs in 1952. After winning the Junior, he rode the same machine to second in the Senior. 12 laps at full chat

Manx Legend; Bob McIntyre
After winning the 1952 Junir Manx, Bob McIntyre took the same AJS 7R to the runner-up spot in the Senior Manx that year

Bob Macs first TT
The flag has dropped and Bob McIntyre (76) W R Smith (77) and Gerald Brown (78) kick their Gold Stars into life in the l952 Junior Clubman race

Roland Pike - Godfather of the Goldie
After developing and rding the Pike Rudge both pre ad post war, Roland Pike joined BSA in 1952 and was given the task of developing the Gold Star. This is a 1952 Lightweight shot; he finished 13th

A sneak preview
A curious enthusiast takes a peek under the cover of a recently-landed Mondial 125, In 1951 they took the first four places

Doran and his Bend
In 1952 AJS rider Bill Doran was out practising on his 3-valve 7R3. Around the Ballacraine area, the lower engine bolt (arrowed) came adrift as he rounded the left-hander after Ballig Bridge

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

Fitting the hard candles
Triple world champion Werner Hs keeps warms as the mechanic fits the race plugs to his NSU. Enrico Lorenzetti (Guzzi) looks on. A 1953 Berne shot

A pair of slidecar masters
Eric Oiver (protecting his goggles) and Cyril Smith discuss tactics at Berne 1953. Probably working out ways to keep the pesky MWs behind

Waterworks
A birds-eye view of the Waterworks section. The reservoir, which ffeds Ramsey is below the camera plane

Dennis Parkinson (Lambretta)
I would love to know who persuaded multi-MGP winner Dennis Parkinson to turn out in 1953 on this Lambretta. Possibly the most under powered machine he ever raced. Dennis was still giving it some

Plug-chop time at Ballaugh
Norton supremo Joe Craig reards the plug on Ray Amms kneeler Norton he tried for practice for the 1953 Junior TT. I wonder if the lad in the foreground got Rays autograph

Italian co-operation
When Moto Guzzi developed a 317cc version of their all-conquering 250 single, they did not have an entry for the TT. MV allowed Fergus Anderson to take over an MV entry

Legpower
Local Butcher Bob Mawson gets a leather-clad workout to get his fuel-less International Norton to a finish in the 1953 Senior Clubman. Bob was awarded the Burmah Star for his WWII exploits

The Pankhurst Special
We can find no information about the Pankhurst Special, ridden in 1951 and 1952 by Robert Holton. This spindly machine uses an Albion gearbox and, we assme by the huge cover

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

Magni the Magnificent Mechanic
Arturo Magni fettles a 1952 500 MV, as ridden by Les Graham and Bill Lomas. In Magnis 25-year reign as chief MV race mecahanic, the Italian factory won 37 world championships with Sandford, Ubbialli

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