Searching my archive during this current Greater Sydney Covid19 lockdown I came across some photos to share with you....

My digitised archive is rather large, although I look forward to the day I finally digitise all my remaining literature and photos....

Sydney where I live is in another Covid19 lockdown & the time to spend all day on a computer searching and digitising images....

So searching it I came across some photos taken by a photographer called Alec Fisher and who ran a motorcycle newspaper in Australia.

Let's have a look at them.... come peruse with me....

 

1929 Velo KDT 415cc OHC... in NSW. No label with pic but suggest it was ridden in mid 1930's by Billy Woodman who had engine no. KDT151 which was invoiced to the NSW  Velocette importer P & R Williams on 30.09.1929.

The Easter motorcycle TT or GP races in Bathurst transferred from the Old Vale circuit to the new almost 4 mile circuit at Mt.Panorama Bathurst in 1938, with this first year having the road surface only dirt. This photo is the 1938 Bathurst Junior TT, Mt.Panorama, Quarry Bends soon after the race start which is on the climb to the mount with #25 Dave Jenkins 348cc OHC Velocette mk.7 KTT, #37 Tommy Jemison, 250 OHV Velocette leading and... #31 C. Hodgekiss 348cc OHC Norton...

1940 Bathurst, likely W.Hickey, 1000 Harley, Murrays corner, end of the con-rod straight. Mt Panorama, Bathurst.

 

1948 Bathurst, Australian  Junior TT, Quarry bends, rider Harry Hinton who won the Junior TT. Interestingly in small print at the bottom of the photo somebody in the past has written that it is Harry Hinton in the 1948 Lwt Australian TT, but Hinton is not listed in the 250 TT in the 1948 program...

Bathurst, Mt.Panorama, Murrays cnr., crash, Norton. No other information, but the road is tarred so 1939 or later & it is at the end of Con-rod straight....

Don Bain 1st Senior TT, Old Vale Circuit,Bathurst 1937,Velocette 495cc OHC... ex works Velocette racer, engine number KTT624, nicknamed "The Monster"... currently on display in the National Motor Racing Museum, Mt.Panorama, Bathurst.

Don Bain, 2nd in the 1940 N.S.W Senior TT, Bathurst on a 495cc Velocette... "The Monster".

Cec Weatherby, 1938 Junior TT, Velocette mk.7 KTT, Bathurst Mt Panorama circuit,

 

Speedway riders arrive by air, Oct.1947, London UK

The speedway riders in the above photo....

1921 Velocette Catalogue with some of the pix from Morton's Motorcycle Media during DQ & Gert Boll's archival trip to the UK in Nov. 2017

 My good friend Gert Boll from Germany and I have made numerous archival trip to the UK, taking in Mortons Media Archive in Horncastle, Lincs & theis post is of a 1921 Velocette Catalogue from Gert with some illustrations from Mortons who I acknowledge....

 

Ladies Model DL2

 ACU 6 Day Trial 1921- Velocette team 3rd....L to R.... George Denly, S.J.Jones, Eugene Goodman.... 3 gold medals....

 

Another look at some of the pix from Morton's Motorcycle Media during DQ & Gert Boll's archival trip to the UK in Nov. 2017

 If you look at the index to my blog over on the RHS you'll see posts I've made with my good friend Gert Boll from Germany... we first started this in 2015 then 2016 and 2017.... Each year we visited Morton's Motorcycle Media in Hornchurch, Lincs., UK & liaised with the editor of "The Classic Motorcycle", James Robinson & Jane Skayman Morton's archivist in our Velocette research....

In this post I'm going to feature some of the little used scrapbooks from the late 1930's... made of brown paper sheeting and containing the unused photos taken during the IOM TT & some European GPs... you'll see they have indian ink hand numbering codes, but the index to these codes has been lost over the years to now, so we can only use other methods to identify these images.... this time I'm leaving it mostly to you to research the pix.... I'd welcome any comments you can make of the images by emailing me....

Dennis Quinlan...  vegavoxbanjo@gmail.com 

There are other images of drawing made by the artists employed by "The MotorCycle" and "MotorCycling".... they are of interest....

So stroll through some of the photos I took that year......

IOM TT weigh in ..

Speedway..11.06.1936

Stanley Woods works Velocette  IOM TT

Ted Mellors, works Velocette, Ulster GP 1938

Velo Viceroy Hovercraft "The MotorCycle" 25.10.1966

Velocette Viceroy scooter at docks

Works DKW, Belgium GP 26.06.1938

1947 TT practice, factory TT Velocette

Amal Matchbox float chamber

Bob Currie 02.01.1967, Velo Venom special