These TT shots were taken between 1961 & 1967 with my Halina 35, a 35mm film camera with fixed lens. All are scanned from postcard sized or smaller prints, some from my own darkroom prints so the quality is very poor but the negatives have long been lost. They may bring memories back though, they certainly have for me!
Oh for a DSLR and telephoto lens then!!
Mike Hailwood on the MV 500 4 cyl at the Gooseneck | 
Mike Hailwood on the MV 500 4 cyl at the Gooseneck |
Agostini on the MV 500 4 cyl at the Gooseneck | 
Mike Hailwood on the MV 500 4 cyl at the Gooseneck in the rain |
The two pix above were taken at the 1965 Senior TT when both Ago and Hailwood were dicing on their MV 500 4 cyl bikes when it rained and both riders came off at Sarah's Cottage. Ago called it a day but Mike re-mounted and carried on to finish the race, When he passed us at the Gooseneck his screen was smashed and the exhaust pipes ere flattened.
Mike Hailwood on his smashed MV at the Gooseneck | 
Hailwood, Honda 6 (16) catches Read, Yamaha 4 (7) at Signpost Corner. So Mike is 40secs up on Phil. |
Phil Read on the square four Yamaha breaking for the Governor's Bridge hairpin corner | 
Phil Read on the square four Yamaha at Signpost Corner |
Phil Read on the square four Yamaha at Signpost Corner | 
Phil Read on the square four Yamaha followed by Renzo Pasolini on the Benelli 4 at Signpost Corner |
Phil Read on the square four Yamaha at the Gooseneck
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Phil Read on the 125cc square four Yamaha going into Governor's Dip |
Phil Read on the 350 Matchless exiting the pits | 
Phil Read on the 350 Matchless flat out after passing the start & finish line on Glecrutchery Road |
Phil Read on the 350 Matchless coming in after the Jounior TT | 
A very under exposed shot of Bill Ivy talking to Phil Read in the pit lane after an evening practice session |
Jim Redman on the 350 Honda 4 at Signpost corner | 
Jim Redman on the 250 Honda 6 at Signpost corner |
Jim Redman on the 250 Honda 4, flat out after passing the start & finish line on Glecrutchery Road | 
Luigi Taveri on the 250 Honda 4, flat out after passing the start & finish line on Glecrutchery Road |
Click below to hear the magnificent 250cc Honda 4 having it's neck screwed in the hands of Bob McIntyre, (the greatest rider never to become World Champion),on the TT course..........MUSIC!
Ralph Bryans on the Honda 250 4 at Bradden Bridge | 
Tom Philis on the 250 Honda 6 at Signpost corner. Later in the week Tom was killed in the Junior Race |
Ralph Bryans on the 50cc Honda, retired at the Gooseneck | 
Ralph Bryans on the 50cc Honda at the Gooseneck |
The magnificent 5 Cylinder 125 Honda.
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A Honda 6 cylinder getting the final touches before scrutining | 
Rear end of the 250 Yamaha square four |
Fly splattered Honda after the 1964 250 TT | 
A production Honda 50cc racer in the paddock |
One of my favorites, Franta Stastny with his
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Ralph Bryans at scrutineering 1962. In those day's all riders and machines had to pass this point. Good viewing
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A works 125 Yamaha | 
Mike O'Rouke with his British, 250 Airel Arrow |
Murray Walker doing a BBC interview | 
Leading Link forks on a Royal Enfield 250 racer |
Max Deubel's 500cc BMW sidecar outfit | 
Leaning out at the Gooseneck |
Franz Scheidegger, 500 BMW at Signpost corner | 
In 1964, Florian Camathias borrowed a works Gilera four for the sidecar race. You could hear it start up from Signpost corner! A couple of miles, 'as the crow flies'
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But it didn't last!!........ Retiring at Signpost | 
Bill Ivy 250 square 4 Yamaha breaking for the Governor's Bridge hairpin corner |
Bill Ivy at Governor's Bridge hairpin on the lap he became the first rider to lap the TT course at over 100 mph on a 125cc machine. People said he was hitting the walls in places, he was going that fast. Later he was killed in
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Hugh Anderson on the 50cc Suzuki twin
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Ernst Degner on the 50cc Suzuki twin at the Gooseneck | 
Racing 50cc bikes at the Gooseneck |
Agostini on the 500 3cyl MV, breaking for Governor's Bridge hairpin | 
Percy Tate on the works, 500cc Triumph, breaking for Governor's Bridge hairpin |
A 250 MZ twin at Bradden Bridge | 
Jim Redman and Luigi Taveri walking in after the finish |
Each year the weekend after the TT Races the 'Race of the Year' event was held at Mallory Park when a lot of the riders from the TT would bring their works bikes over to the race on their way to the next World Championship event. It was a fantastic meeting with Honda's Yamaha's MV etc. I remember one year we arrived on the Saturday to camp overnight and Agostini was doing lap after lap on the MV to try and learn the course as he had never been there before. Great stuff!
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Hailwood 500 MV 4, leads John Cooper 500 Norton out of the hairpin at Mallory
Hailwood MV after another win |
Two works Yamah's exiting the haripin at Mallory | 
Bill Ivy on the 250 square four Yamaha at Signpost Corner in the 1966 TT |
Start of a race at Oulton Park (1960's?) | 
Old Hall Corner at Oulton Park (before the armco) |
