Saturday, June 6, 2020

A second look at Maurie Pearson's mid 1950's photo albums... #2

As I said before, I've much more left in my archive to use...however this Covid-19 lock-down is as good a reason as any to continue.... Maurie Pearson was a motorcycle enthusiast living in Sydney who passed away some years back at a good age...I'd know him for many years and often wondered about any motorcycle photos he may have had.. I never followed it up, but fate dealt me a good blow when I was offered two volumes of the large photo albums he had made up, mostly from the period 1954 to around 1960 and I suspect the photos were purchased over the years from the publishers of "Motorcycling in NSW".  Some 100 pages or so with often 4 or 5 pics on each page they are a treasure trove I'm about to share with you, but not in any order. Dare I say it again...yes.... If you capture a photo for your use, please credit Maurie Pearson as the owner of same...
What have I this time for you?  H'm, I've posted some of these on a Facebook site... never mind..
 Well have some sidecars at Bathurst  & some solos at Bathurst 1957, 1958...
So again, that said, coffee in hand, scroll through this offering...
 Bob Mitchell.....
 Jack Ehret.....Bathurst 1958
 Sandy McCrea.....
 Orrie Salter...

3rd Junior, Keo Madden
 Barry Green...
Johnny Shanks...
Ken Rumble... 
 D.Cameron, 1957 Bathurst...
 Jack Jowett, 1957 Bathurst...
 Barry Hodgkinson...1957 Bathurst, Travelling Marshall...
 Bert Bayliss, 1957 Bathurst...
Start of the 1957 Junior TT, Bathurst...
 Start 1957 Bathurst practice...
 Junior TT, 1958, lower "esses"...

Typical list of title & good riders mid 1950's....