Mapping the ISDT: San Remo Italy 1948

15 Thursday May 2014

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Captain Allan Jeffries, Hugh Viney, ISDT, ISDT 1948, Jack Williams, Royal Enfield, San Remo, Vic Brittain

The ISDT restarted after the war and 1948 was the second year of the resurrection of the event with the British Trophy team victorious with Captain Allan Jeffries (600 Triumph), CN Rogers (350 Royal Enfield), Vic Brittain (350 Royal Enfield), Hugh Viney (500 AJS), and Jack Williams (500 Norton). I now have been lucky to set my hands on copies of both issues of ‘the Motor Cycle‘ covering the event which is featured in this blog on the event. However here is the course map for the ISDT 1948 which we hope to use to digitise a modern map for the original route.

image – route map for ISDT from ‘the Motor Cycle‘ ISDT 1948

ISDT 1948: Gold medal saved

08 Thursday May 2014

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FICM, Gold Medal, ISDT 1948

Hot news – ISDT 1948 Gold Medal rescued from Flea Bay. Unfortunately no information exists as to who the person awarded the medal was.

Photo – Gold Medal (front) ISDT 1948

Photo – Gold Medal (rear) ISDT 1948

Mapping the ISDT: 1951 Italy

23 Wednesday Apr 2014

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Bosco Valtravaglia, Como, ISDT 1951, Maggiore, Monza, Porta Valtravaglia, San Pellegrino, Sesto Calende, Varese

Image – scanned map of course ISDT 1951

Image – scanned course map of ISDT 1951

This list of places along the route was released in an article in ‘the Motor Cycle‘ 19 July 1951.

THE MOTORCYCLE, 19 JULY 1951

International Six Days’ Trial September 18 to 23

Routes for the International Six Days’ Trial have now been issued. The event is to be held in Italy from Tuesday, September 18, to Sunday, September 23, with Varese as the headquarters. On the fourth day, the Friday, there will be a night run, just over 100 miles in length. Total mileage of the route will be approximately 1,220 plus the high-speed test, which will be at Monza autodrome.

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ISDT 1951: “Britain wins the International again”

02 Sunday Mar 2014

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ISDT 1951, Varese

Thus read the article headline for the report on the ISDT 1951 that appeared in the 27th September edition of ‘the Motor Cycle‘ for 1951.

The article can be read in full via our online library of vintage magazine articles held at issuu.com here

Fifteenth Success for British Teams in the Trophy Contest: Netherlands Team Wins Silver Vase on Speed Test: An event of Varying Severity in Northern Italy

The issue’s Editorial read

BRITAIN WINS AGAIN
The International Six Days’ Trial in Italy

Photo – Effective shot of #182 F.M Rist (646 BSA) British Trophy Team captain near Levo ISDT 1951 (speedtracktales archive)

ONCE more a British team has won the International Six Days’ Trial. This success brings the number of British wins to 15 of the total of 26 Trials that have been held. The British quintet completed the six-day course of some 1,200 road miles and the final hour’s speedtest without loss of marks to beat the Austrian team by one mark. Although there were only three teams competing for the International Trophy – the third was Italy – the lustre of the success is not diminished, since no team could have done better.

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ISDT Image Archive: The Stilltime Collection

25 Wednesday Dec 2013

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Recently noticed in the last few months a new collection of very old Photos started coming up in Google Searches although they appear to have existed since at least 2012. A number of the photos I have seen before in the pages of British Motor Cycling Magazines and these look like scans off glass plates or negatives so I am going to presume the Mortons Archive are using this site as another agency to sell it’s images. No doubt those of you looking for publish quality images for your ISDT / Vintage publications will find this a helpful resource for rights managed images as it appears a lot better than Morton’s own online gallery:

This blog was generated direct off the page but does not appear to share the image but just the key worlds which were for an interwar image taken on the Großglockner. The numbers of images available seem very impressive. The standard ISDT search found 519 images. I was able to create a URL to display the watermarked image here from the gallery page.

Image of the ISDT from the stilltime collection of 20th Century British Photographs

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Merry Xmas 2013 and a Happy New Year for all of our readers and supporters

24 Tuesday Dec 2013

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Arnott, BSA, ISDT 1939, xmas

Image – Happy Xmas 2013 and a prosperous New Year #116 JH Arnott 496cc BSA Großglockner ISDT 1939 (Image courtesy TECHNISCHEN MUSEUM WIEN)

Thanking our many many visitors in 2013 and especially those getting in contact to share their own personal and family memories of the ISDT and the riders. We stil lhave lots more to rediscover and save for the event and are reliant on your support. Coming soon will be a bumper posting of images of the ISDT in Wales recovered from back issues of Das Motorrad recently acquired for the web archive.

ISDT 1951: George Wilson asks Where do we go from here?

21 Saturday Dec 2013

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George Wilson, ISDT 1951, Varese

The following article about the ISDT 1951 appeared in the 4th October 1951 issue of ‘the Motor Cycle‘ and in which George asks a number of questions about the venue for the event, the future of the event and the British teams future tactical challenges, and introduces some great new British Talent:

Where do we go from here?

A Backward Glance at the 26th International Six Days’ Trial – and a Thought for the Future.

By GEORGE WILSON

photo - Motor cycles's Deputy Editor, George Wilson on the Royal Enfield Twin ISDT 1951 (Speedtracktales Collection)

photo – ‘Motor Cycle‘ Deputy Editor, George Wilson on the Royal Enfield Twin ISDT 1951 (Speedtracktales Collection)

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Internationally Famous: Royal Enfield at the ISDT 1948 – 1953

20 Friday Dec 2013

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Bullet, Don Evnas, ISDT 1948, ISDT 1949, ISDT 1950, ISDT 1951, ISDT 1952, ISDT 1953, Johnny Brittain, Royal Enfield, Ted Stocker, Vic Brittain

“The story of the Royal Enfield in the International Six Days Trial 1948, 1949,1950, 1951, 1952, 1953” is the title of a palm of a hand sized original publication produced by Royal Enfield in 1953 that recently fell into our hands and is of such great interest we reproduce it here. Royal Enfield, who could boast not only great bikes but a factory team that contained some of the sports greatest factory riders of the time including Vic and Johnny Brittain as well as Jack Stocker show how their successful domination of the results sheet at the ISDT meant the commute to work was going to be a lot more successful on a Royal Enfield than it might be on a lesser qualified motor cycle.

image – Royal Enfield booklet front cover (Speedtracktales Collection)

The World’s Toughest Motor-Cycle Event

photo – the victorious ROYAL ENFIELD 1953 team: Johnny Brittain (Trophy) [LWP 424], Don Evans (Vase A) [LWP 423], and Jack Stocker (Trophy) [LWP 422], all mounted on 500 twins – ISDT 1953 (Speedtracktales collection)

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Welcome to the Speedtracktales Library and Shop

16 Monday Dec 2013

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inter war, old motorcycling magazines, pre war, veteran, vintage

When I restarted Taff’s site, all I had to begin with was a website copied to a harddisk drive that I had been able to download in its entirety from his old server. Since then I have been greatly helped by Taff and his friends like ‘STB’ and Brian Catt. Between gifts , loans and acquisitions I have been able to get back to the original hard copy material and started to scan to archive these materials so as to enable people to access and view this material at what ever time and place suits their convenience. Below is an image of some of the material I now control that may be one of the most intact archives of the Event even considering the FIM and National Federations material.

The Speedtracktales Collection 2013

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ISDE 2013: Sardinia, Italy – Official programme

28 Saturday Sep 2013

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ISDE 2013, Programme

We will not be forgetting that as in 2013 we are commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first ISDT held in Carlisle, England that this year Italy will be the host nation for the ISDE this year in Sardinia starting 30 September.

The organisers have kindly posted on line via issuu.com the official programme as a full colour electronic document which not only provides helpful route maps, lists of entrants and teams but a lot of background to past ISDT events with it being the 100th year as well as a complete list up to date of International Trophy / World Trophy winners for every year the event was held.

view the programme here

http://issuu.com/federmoto.2011/docs/official_program_isde_web

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