W.F. Omodei Pty Ltd, was a business in the motorcycle trade in Sydney, Australia from the 1920's up into around 1990 when it finally closed it's doors...I've most of the Omodei accessory catalogues and this post illustrates some of the bearing and other information they kept for staff to sell items...

I started with an earlier post on the Sydney business, W.F.Omodei Pty. Ltd with some Amal information..see...

http://velobanjogent.blogspot.com.au/2009/08/276-amal-carburettor-from-early-1930s.html

In the many catalogues from UK and other countries trade houses, for Reg Hardy who was the manager for such a long time and the final owner, was an inveterate writer to these companies seeking products, distribution rights etc, were some hand made data books, which were for the use of himself and his staff to identify parts required from counter and mail order inquiries to assist with sales.

They are fascinating for this use, but now form a very useful reference tool...

This will be the start of a series as I often do, until all the data is displayed....

One of the books featured pages cut out from various motorcycle manufacturers catalogues with reference to the items they could sell to the public...

Lets starts with Velocette.....

Then from their bearing catalogue sheet..Velocette, then BTH, Lucas and Miller...

Some Omodei adverts from motorcycling magazines in 1936,1937, 1957 and 1980....

Back to some more photographs from the camera of Austrian photographer Artur Fenzlau...from the mid 1950's period....

I'm in a folder I saved some photos of Artur Fenzlau's taken during 1957 in events in Austria.

I've done some four other posts of his photos...easily accessed with the search facility on the RHS on this blog...type in Fenzlau....

Again acknowledgement is made to the Technical Museum of Austria in Vienna ....  http://www.technischesmuseum.at/
Aand the estate of the late Artur Fenzlau for this non commercial posting of these photographs...
Most were unlabelled and not having a program etc I can't help here...but I suspect they were at the hillclimb in a Vienna suburb.

 A couple from a meeting in 1959 and 1960....

And finally some BMW Rennsport photos, some have been displayed before....

More on...1975 IOM TT races.... as I said in the last post, keen on B&W photography, I pressed my trusty Voigtlander camera into service....some more pics....

Following on from my last post, below, let's look at some more negatives that I scanned in recently and taken at the IOM TT races in 1975 by me....

Helmut Dahne, R90S BMW, Open Classic TT practice....

Interesting shot...don't know who the rider was...in practice...at Ramsay...

#52, Steve Tonkin, 347cc McVeigh Yamaha  during the Classic TT practice...

#7, Aussie  Jack Findlay on the 830cc Norton during the Open Classic TT practice...

#45, Aussie "Jolly Jack"...Jack Ahearn, a veteran TT rider of so many years.....Junior Yamaha..

#81, Hugh Evans and Ken Huggett's 898cc R90S BMW entry in practice for the 1000cc Production Machine class....

#76, Martin Sharpe and John Cowie shared this BMW in the U/L production machine class....

Didn't catch the machine/rider details of the BMW during practice...at Ramsay....

Unsure about this Velocette entry...I would say the rider is Danny Shimmin from the name on his leathers and the Manx emblem on his helmet...

Can't place this entry, possibly in the Open Classic TT...

#10, Dave Croxford, 830cc Norton in Open Classic TT practice...

#70, possibly John Holmes, Rea Yamaha and #14...unsure who....

#36, BMW...can't place this entry from my program....

Another Manx ferry brings in spectators for the races....