1934 IOM Senior Race clip on Youtube

Hi,
I've uploaded a short silent newsreel clip of Jimmie Guthrie riding in
the 1934 IOM Senior. Enjoy!



Regards
Malcolm

 

Crikey, makes you think doesn't it - 78mph average over 265 miles
without a stop.

Respect.

 

Thus spake Jordan () unto the assembled multitudes:

Especially as they all rode Spagthorpes in those days. ;-)

 

Fewer telephone poles then, as well.

 

Eh? I'd have thought more -- no fibre-optics and microwave relays...

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Maybe there were more and the riders knocked them all down...

 

...and we all know they are still trying...

(I can still remember when we got a telephone line at our farm about 1955,
the PO supplied a trunk network down the road; my father had to go into the
forest and cut down 4 or 5 tall trees and erect them down to the road for
the engineers to install the lines on. We got electricity a few years later,
but luckily the govt. supplied the poles and stepdown transformer; as share-
farmers we'd never have been able to pay for it ourselves.)

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".