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- Film ID:
- 1880.60
- Media URN:
- 72295
- Group:
- Old negatives
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 1914 - 1918
- Sound:
- Silent
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:03:38:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:57:11:00 / 02:00:49:00
- Canister:
- ON 079 D
InkyAnn says
This is footage of the 1923 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Race, the first year in which sidecars competed. The rider and passenger on the start line are Freddie Dixon and T ‘Walter’ Denny on their famous ‘banking sidecar’. They won the race and set the lap record with an average lap speed of 53.15mph. [Note the famous postcard image of their winning sidecar, bearing number 55, is inaccurately labelled as it gives Walter’s surname as Perry.] (References: http://www.iomtt.com/TT-Database/Events/Races.aspx?meet_code=TT23&race_seq=3, http://www.iomtt.com/TT-Database/Events.aspx?meet_code=TT23 &era=1, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Dixon). The hairpin bend is the famous Ramsey Hairpin still used on the modern TT Mountain Course, looking back at the town on Ramsey in the distance. Their sidecar was ground-breaking as Walter had long handles to enable the whole machine to be banked around corners, reducing the amount he had to lean. Compare the footage of them at the hairpin (00:09)…
InkyAnn says
with the footage of other competitors (00:38 onwards), who had to work considerably, and you will see how much difference it made. The sidecar is now kept in the Milntown Estates collection on the Isle Of Man. (http://www.milntown.org/image_bikes_collection_71154.html)
At 00:23 you can see a marshal – wearing a white coat and Dunlop Tyres sash – directing the racers in the correct direction. At 01:34 the footage changes so the camera is pointing back down the circuit as the machines climb up the hill immediately following the Hairpin. The S-shaped bend over the bridge may be the modern Braddan Bridge, which is still on the modern TT circuit. The camera is positioned on the edge of Kirk Braddan churchyard.