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Maybe you or some of your readers can help me, re the 1939 ISDT please?
I’ve read that Bert Perrigo, BSA Competition Manager, travelled over to Austria in his BSA saloon car with the Army convoy. (This was in addition to Tom Davies accompanying the BSA Team.)
However, when did Perrigo return to England?
Was it early Friday morning, together with the great majority of the competitors, support crews, spectators, with Vic Brittain in the passenger seat of his BSA car, leaving his Norton behind? (as his son, Johnny Brittain says today, and who also says that Allan Jefferies told him he’d seen Vic’s Norton in Austria after the war…..
or
Was it late Friday evening, after the day’s competitive riding, when “…Perrigo waited for the riders to return, filled their tanks and sign off for good, while Lt.Col.Bennett dealt with the administration.” from p46, Walker & Carrick’s ISDT history Col.Grimm & Col.Bennett then led the three Army teams, together with Cottle, Edge, Sim, Sanders and TSRs and spectators, to the Swiss Border.
Any hard facts re this would be much appreciated, as I’d hate to promulgate false ‘facts’ in my forthcoming book.
John Bradshaw
http://www.jrbpub.net
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Hi,
I can tell you that Bert Perrigo stayed behind with the army team as the attached will tell you. However, I have not been able to find any referrence to whether Vic Britain left his Norton behind. Â However, I would thnk this very unlikely as all the other competitors seem to have riden their bikes and I am sure he would have faced a lot of questions if he had turned up at Norton after getting back and had to confess that he had left his bike behind when all others returned?
I hope this is helpful. Â
Kind regards,
John Tinley
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Thanks John, You mention an attachment but I dont see anything?