Thanks for the confidence, Cargo
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OK - here we go on Fred Walker in the 1914 Junior TT.

On an Enfield, he led lap one by 45 seconds after a standing-start lp record. On lap 2 Eric Williams on a works AJS pulled his lead back to 28 seconds, and when Walker was late at the end of lap 3, having dropped to joint 9th, he threw an inner tube to his pit and it was seen to have been punctured.

Lap 4 saw him up to 7th, and after a very good 5th and last lap he was, as Nick J noted, classified as 3rd.

On that last lap, however, he fell at Hillberry, and was warned by a marshal not to proceed further without seeing to his brakes.

He then approached Willaston corner - at the bottom of Johnny Watterson's Lane where the course turned left into Ballanard Road - with both feet on the road, and fell again.

He immediately remounted and dashed away for the last half mile to the finish - a witness stated that having passed the crossroads and realising his mistake, he braked and actually locked his back wheel and ducked his head before striking the barrier.

Sadly, he lingered for several days before dying.

I would have been back with this sooner, but have only just returned home after an evening at the cabaret known as the MCUI Ulster Centre Council meeting!

Cargo knows all about those . . . . . . . . . . . :wink: