Also in the auction will be the TT Riders Association archive of books, programmes, results books, "TT Specials" from 1936, and more.

The TTRA Committee having decided that as a charitable organisation it had no longer any need for an archive and an Archivist, it instructed me some months ago to box up this vast amount of written and published history and despatch it to Bonham's.

At least it gave me the opportunity to bring my own library/archive down from my loft and return it to its own shelves . . . . . . . . .

Pity, though, that the facility to have research done on behalf of members and non-members no longer exists . . . . . . . . . .

Mind you, if anyone needs historical queries answered, on early TTs or other international road races, I'll do my best off my own bat :!: