TT COURSE 1947
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TT COURSE 1947
Now, have a look at the course from 1947 where bends were bends, before "they" started trimming and straightening.

http://www.bbhmg.com/memthree.htm

I would like your comments and observations please...
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07-02-2006, 09:34 PM
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Basically the corners were corners in those days Lol
Ian if you could blow up no 10 a bit more, because that looks very much like a stone wall in front of the raven??(middle of the pic)
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07-02-2006, 11:05 PM
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That's what it was Mike - aren't we lucky that it was gone by the time that we got there :!:

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08-02-2006, 01:32 AM
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That was the stuff 7 and 8 lappers 3/4 plus hour races. Great memories.

Thanks for sharing.

Ian if that is a picture of of you sat on the bike shaking hands with John Williams sporting a muzzie I will pickle my nuts. Never in the world is that J.W unless you are not talking about the MV splitting J.W. but someone else.

What you say Pykey?
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08-02-2006, 01:31 PM
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The John Williams pictured is the presumably the American John W; who is officially the first black rider ??? to ride in the TT

...."In 1978 in the F1 TT when John Williams came second the other John Williams on a Bill Smith 810 Honda finished 15th!"
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08-02-2006, 02:09 PM
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Naw, this John Williams was entered by Bill Smith and I contributed to his entry requirements as well !! Rode a few years at the TT, he did..
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Do not do that Ian !!!! I thought I had gone completely senile.
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08-02-2006, 02:53 PM
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Ian, I found the pictures of Duke and Surtees weighing in amusing, I had forgotten that all riders and officials were expected to wear their best bib and tucker, at the least a jacket, if not a suit with a shirt and tie when we scrutineered and signed on pre race day before putting the bikes in the marquee overnight.
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I would money its not JG but in my time there was 3 John Williams who rode at the TT.
13-02-2006, 01:35 PM
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