The 1938 ISDT...a pictorial view....

I did a post on Stuart Waycott's special 598cc SOHC Velocette outfit and his participation in the prewar ISDT on December 6th  2010 and in it featured his participation in the ISDT and especially 1938 so a review of the photos used would be interesting.

http://velobanjogent.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/stuart-waycott-600-velocette-isdt.html

What is the ISDT ?? The International Six Days Trial.....

It was really big prewar and countries entered teams competing for the several prestigious trophies.

Hitler's Germany with its sports director were particularly active in looking to win these events, purely for political means.

Great Britain responded and we will look, photographically at the 1938 event, based in Llandrindod Wells, Wales as it was the previous year, 1937.

 Map of the six days routes, starting and finishing daily at Llandrindod Wells. Most of the routes were between 430 and 450 km each day over poor tracks and the trial finished with speed tests on the last day.

Riders starting for the day. I'm unable to determine which day this is, however the outfit #32 is the 590cc Jawa entry of F.Janecek with the driver listed as F.Juhan, both of the Czechoslovakia.

#65, 494cc BMW outfit entered by the German National Socialist group N.S.K.K and ridden by R.Seltsam.

The Dutch A Vase team...#90 J.Bovee, #101 A.P.v.Hamersveld and #66 J.Roest all on 500 BMW's, and entered by the Dutch controling body the K.N.M.V.

Crowds in Llandrindod Wells, outside Tom Norton's Garage, listening to a broadcast of the event by Graham Walker.

A UK War Office entry, #78, a 500 BSA ridden by D.T. Dalby, somewhere on the route....
The going looks ok....

The going looks a little harder...day 5, the caption of the rear of my pic says...Ffrydd-Croestry. Presumably the area, but I'm unable to locate it on the atlas maps I have.
#105 is the NSU-Werke, the factory NSU entry , a 593cc NSU outfit, ridden by H.Dunz.
The going looks harder still....

#84, Stuart Waycott on the special 598cc ex TT SOHC engined Velocette with (Australian) Goulding sidecar.

Waycott's outfit.....

The 1929 IOM TT.... ML magnetos swept the pool. A look through a small ML publicity booklet of the time.....

Advertising by accessory manufacturers prior to the great depression resulted in many offering large sums of money as contingency money for the use of their products...hence the tables with the "trade barons" seated behind them at the weigh in for the IOM TT races.  

They wanted to know what products you had on your racing motorcycle...often gave you money to fit their product and should you win gave further prize money.

So advertising of these products was rife.

Lets look at ML magnetos....

I've a little booklet they produced following the 1929 IOM TT races in which they did exceptionally well.....

We'll peruse it together...

To put us in the mood, lets get our tickets for the grand stand ...

OK they are for the 1930 event, but changed little...

 

Pretty pricey I would have thought considering a mans wages of the time....

Motorcyclings" 1960 Sports-Pix album part 3.....the final part of three interesting little booklets produced by "MotorCycling" in 1960.....

During 1960, the UK motorcycle weekly "Motorcycling" produced three Sports-Pix albums.

I've covered the first two over the last year and you can view the other two by searching for them in the search facility in this blog over on the RHS...type in Sports-Pix.

So this is the last, covering the highlights of autumn events, predominately in the UK, during 1960....

Haven't seen any for sale or trade in the usual venues, so they may be a little difficult to track down...

YOKOHAMA CHOPPER SCENE, INSTAGRAM PHOTOS BY HIROSHI ONO