The items I've spent considerable time "cleaning up"...newsprint almost 80 years old and not specifically conserved is difficult to work with but fortunately the special A3 sized scanner and programs enable me to get the images to be acceptable, rather than the black and white dotted images if you photocopy....
This blog is about the road racing circuits of the 1930's...not all, just those that our mystery person collected information on...
The 1932 Ulster Grand Prix run over the infamous Clady circuit with its 7 mile long, undulating, bumpy "Clady Straight"
The French Grand Prix at Dieppe in 1934.....
The Hohenstein-Ernstthal Grand Prix in Germany in 1937
The 1932 Spanish Grand Prix at Bilbao.
4 comments:
What a great find Dennis! Thank you for sharing it with us. Now when do we get to learn more about that V twin 250 supercharged Rudge? wow, what a little motor. I'm surprised that Rudge would invest the time and money to develop such a beast, instead of a 350 or 500cc motor... They certainly were inventive and independent fellows.
The sidecar rider with A Horton was Les "Dizzy" Seales. They won British GP 3 times and Swiss once in the 1930's. Seales was an air gunner in 96 sqn Defiant in 1941. He "wing walked" to help his pilot out (stuck harness mechanism) at 3000 ft after striking an object on take-off which wiped out the undercarriage. He motor cycled until 75 and then wing walked again on a Stearman from the Utterly Butterly team to make a new British time record at the age of 88 even though he had lost a leg a few years before after walking under a London bus! great characters.
Thanks for the info in your comment....
Dennis Quinlan.
The Velobanjogent
I used to work with Dizzy he was a lovely guy x
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