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Help please to identify a rider - ian huntly - 29-04-2009 I have found a box of items in my "vast collection" dating from 1949, among the items is an arm band with no.21 on it. The arm band lettering is in red so I have to assume that no.21 was a rider in that years Senior Race. Can anyone help me to idenify the rider please ? Could it be one of the Brett brothers ? RE: Help please to identify a rider - cargo - 29-04-2009 Larry will know and if he doesn't I'll eat my hat RE: Help please to identify a rider - George - 29-04-2009 Try this http://www.iomtt.com/TT-Database/Events/Races.aspx?meet_code=TT49&race_seq=7 The mystery solved! - Bill Snelling - 29-04-2009 The rider was Charlie Brett, brother of better-known Jack. He retired on the fifth lap of the Senior on his 350 Velocette. He had finished 23rd in the Junior on the same machine. RE: The mystery solved! - larryd - 29-04-2009 Well done Bill - happy to finish second! Sorry Cargo, but I've only just logged in - I've been working on Tandragee paperwork all day, and you know what that means . . . . . . Ian - surely you have all your programmes in your archives??? RE: Help please to identify a rider - cargo - 30-04-2009 Excellent Bill well done...............and on the grounds that Larry didn't get it................. RE: Help please to identify a rider - ian huntly - 30-04-2009 Oh Larry, you will surprised that my present "Vast collection" started only after meeting the great Geoff Duke in 1950 and I then began my idolising phase and also began to be a hoarder of all things TT. My Dad was pit attendant for the Bretts in 1949 so I wanted it confirmed that this armband was related to Charlie. The armband is in red lettering so to me that signifies the Senior. However I am embarrassed to tell you that my 1949 year collection is not as big as my 1950 year collection, for instance I do not even have a programme from 1949 ! (anybody got one please ?) The loft collection has grown in a big way since then !! RE: Help please to identify a rider - cargo - 30-04-2009 Wouldn't surprise me if Larry has 2 1949 programmes RE: Help please to identify a rider - Malcolm - 30-04-2009 No 1949 programme here, but there are quite a few others:- http://www.biker-gifts.co.uk/ttprogrammes.htm RE: Help please to identify a rider - larryd - 30-04-2009 In 1949, Ian, there was a separate programme for each race day, and indeed this system, which had operated since at least the 1920s, continued until 1952 which was the first year of a single programme for the entire event. I have, for 1949, Monday's programme (Junior) and Friday's (Lightweight & Senior) but I'm missing Wednesday's (Clubmans). Sadly, I have only one of each!