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TT COURSE 1947 - ian huntly - 07-02-2006
Now, have a look at the course from 1947 where bends were bends, before "they" started trimming and straightening.
http://www.bbhmg.com/memthree.htm
I would like your comments and observations please...
- mikec - 07-02-2006
Basically the corners were corners in those days
Ian if you could blow up no 10 a bit more, because that looks very much like a stone wall in front of the raven??(middle of the pic)
If it is one word springs to mind!! ouch if you got it wrong
- larryd - 08-02-2006
That's what it was Mike - aren't we lucky that it was gone by the time that we got there :!:
- Tom Loughridge - 08-02-2006
That was the stuff 7 and 8 lappers 3/4 plus hour races. Great memories.
Thanks for sharing.
Ian if that is a picture of of you sat on the bike shaking hands with John Williams sporting a muzzie I will pickle my nuts. Never in the world is that J.W unless you are not talking about the MV splitting J.W. but someone else.
What you say Pykey?
- charlie hulse - 08-02-2006
The John Williams pictured is the presumably the American John W; who is officially the first black rider ??? to ride in the TT
...."In 1978 in the F1 TT when John Williams came second the other John Williams on a Bill Smith 810 Honda finished 15th!"
white williams - ian huntly - 08-02-2006
Naw, this John Williams was entered by Bill Smith and I contributed to his entry requirements as well !! Rode a few years at the TT, he did..
- Tom Loughridge - 08-02-2006
Do not do that Ian !!!! I thought I had gone completely senile.
- Tom Loughridge - 08-02-2006
Ian, I found the pictures of Duke and Surtees weighing in amusing, I had forgotten that all riders and officials were expected to wear their best bib and tucker, at the least a jacket, if not a suit with a shirt and tie when we scrutineered and signed on pre race day before putting the bikes in the marquee overnight.
- Anonymous - 13-02-2006
I would money its not JG but in my time there was 3 John Williams who rode at the TT.