I found this article on a Vintage Bike site.
http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/cgi-bin/yab...1219602715

If you can identify, please reply on the Vintage Bike thread.

Bill? Larry?

I know you're not old enough to have been there, but I suspect you may have the answers.

B

boakesey Wrote:Bill? Larry?

I know you're not old enough to have been there, but I suspect you may have the answers.

B

Aye - I'm working on it.

Give me an hour or two!!

I would have thought it was the 1938 TT, not 1939. I think I could identify most of those riders with a little research. Bob Foster was in there alongside Woods, Rusk, Frith, Daniell, the DKW men probably Fleishmann, Kluge........ anyway Larry's doing the work right now, so i won't bother. Good photos though.

NickJ Wrote:I would have thought it was the 1938 TT, not 1939. I think I could identify most of those riders with a little research. Bob Foster was in there alongside Woods, Rusk, Frith, Daniell, the DKW men probably Fleishmann, Kluge........ anyway Larry's doing the work right now, so i won't bother. Good photos though.

Thanks, Liz and Nick, for the vote of confidence!!

You're right, Nick - at least 6 are 1938, the rest 1939.

They are indeed cracking shots, and we don't see enough of these paddock photos.

I've posted details on the site concerned.

Just hope no-one pulls me on any!!!

Pretty impresssive Larry, we expected nothing less! That said, I wouldn't have been absolutely convinced with the Ginger Wood and David Whitworth id's but I would bow to your greater knowledge. The Jimmy Little photo I had no idea of. Isn't the guy stood with Stanley Woods one of the Goodman brothers?

NickJ Wrote:Pretty impresssive Larry, we expected nothing less! That said, I wouldn't have been absolutely convinced with the Ginger Wood and David Whitworth id's but I would bow to your greater knowledge. The Jimmy Little photo I had no idea of. Isn't the guy stood with Stanley Woods one of the Goodman brothers?

Hi Nick

Definitely recognise the faces of Ginger Wood and David Whitworth.

As to the gentleman with Stanley, is he not a bit slight of build to be one of the Goodman brothers and indeed a bit young?

At any rate, no names occur!!

Bill Snelling will know!

http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/cgi-bin/yab...2715/15#15

Certainly one of the Goodman brothers was on the large side. But the guy's face looks familiar, and I will look until the penny drops.
When you say David Whitworth, I presume you mean M.D.Whitworth, who rode Triumphs around Brooklands. Yes? Well he rode the Maudes Trophy with my father in 1938, and from the photos I have he doesn't look like the David Whitworth in these photos that you have been identifying. Hmmmm?
And to be fair, Ginger Wood looks different in the photos I've seen of Ginger Wood.

NickJ Wrote:Certainly one of the Goodman brothers was on the large side. But the guy's face looks familiar, and I will look until the penny drops.

Nick - could it be Mr Perkins of the Vacuum Oil Company (Mobil), who funded Stanley's move from Norton to Husqvarna in 1934 (£1500) and paid him a further retainer each year up to 1939?

This is fasinating stuff by you guys. Names,years.
Next thing you will be saying who made the leathers and the wooden bike posts

Oh, don't encourage them... they will!!

thewitch Wrote:Oh, don't encourage them... they will!!

Now there's a challenge.

They are probably in Ian Huntly's loft!

Naaaah - there are limits!



Although I might, just might, be able to find out who made Stanley's leathers . . . . . . .

But don't hold me to it!!

larryd Wrote:Naaaah - there are limits!



Although I might, just might, be able to find out who made Stanley's leathers . . . . . . .

But don't hold me to it!!

Off you go then