You're right David. The thought of Eddie Nelson, and Jim Parker being in charge would signal a continued diminishing of my interest in the TT Races. 18years as Riders Representative gives me some authority to write this. Apologies to the Hanson family, for some reason (senior moment), I wrote Neil's father's name as Donald, when it was in fact Douglas. Thank you for pointing it out Larry. I was thinking of another stalwart of the MMCC, the late Don Cottier, who with Joyce Cottier, ran the Woodbourne Hotel, unofficial HQ of the ACU in the fifities and sixties. After Don died in 1967, Joyce married Ken Shierson the legendary secretary of the ACU. Think she lives in the Mediterranean now. Does anyone know?