Funny you should mention that, I wondered where cargo had got, keeping my fingers crossed for his first rep.

So much progress and new technology, if it had been a T.T or MGP in the sixties I would now be sitting in the garage or the Douglas bay or later years that illegal drinking den "Dunns Bar" in Hutchinson square reading all about him and everyone else in Fred Hank's magnificent rag the T.T. Special

Always in the newsagents within a few hours of racing, full write up with photos mentioning all and sundry, the quick and the not so quick, retirements where and why.

Even if you were not on the island you would get it in the post, sometimes even the next morning.

And Fred was just a motor cycle dealer from Erdington, but you got a good read about everything within a few hours.