17 Friday Feb 2017
Thank you to our Euro correspondent SB for digging up a route map for the 6th day of the ISDT 1956. We have now loaded it into Google Earth to protect it’s history and provide a copy of the scanned map here for those studying the 1956 event held at Garmisch Partenkirchen.
Image – The route of the 6th and final day of the ISDT 1956 to the east of Garmisch PartenKirchen
If any readers have any experiences or photos of this route please drop a line so we can add them to the events route profile.
11 Saturday Feb 2017
With great thanks to our Euro ISDT expert we now have a scanned copy of the event programme for the ISDT 1956 which has been hand annotated to record the final starting list on the first day.
The program can be found at our issue.com library along with other programmes and magazine reports from the original events
04 Friday Nov 2016
Our gratitude to a reader Adam Sliwka who forwarded details of the Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe – National Digital Archive of Poland web site where an amazing library of historic images included a number from historic ISDT events. The images here are of the ISDT 1936 held in Germany. Of particular interest is the inclusion of images taken of riders on a very new Autobahn, one of the major civil engineering projects that Adolf Hitler had set about after he became the leader of Germany which it is contended were purposely designed to facilitate rapid advancement of his army should a war break out.
photo – Victorious British Trophy team with Stuart Waycott, A Belstun, George Rowley and Vic Brittain with Walcott’s #42 works Velocette 495cc – the 1930’s ISDT dream team ISDT 1936 Germany (Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe)
22 Saturday Mar 2014
On a recent on-line material hunt we checked out the Associated Press media website following up on a haunch press images of the event may be found. Almost immediately we stumbled over a video clip labeled as ‘Poland International Trial’ watching the clip the first bike to pass by was a Matchless and a quick check about enabled us to put riders numbers and bikes together using the 1958 programme so we are pretty certain this is the 1958 ISDT held in Garmish Partenkirchen, West Germany in 1958 you can see other video clips of the event in our video gallery.
1958 – West Germany
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We spotted the following riders in this clip
22 Saturday Mar 2014
Whilst undertaking a recent trawl through the photo archive at Associated Press (AP) for old photos connected to the ISDT and its venues I found a couple of news reel clips which although not clearly labelled were of the ISDT. I have now added these to the video page but here is the video of the 1969 event held in Garmisch Parternkirchen, West Germany as it was then.
1969 – W Germany
A short soundless newsreel in colour found in the media archive of Associated Press
05 Sunday Jan 2014
‘Uh oh’ here I go again, let’s get mapping. Any tips or clues welcome as we are a bit short on detail other than this map. update – It goes without wonder that our first two offers of help were from German readers, Andreas who has helped work out the modern place names, and the incredible ‘STB’ who without asking bowled up with detailed original maps for days 1 and 2 of the event.
Image – map from ‘Motor Cycling’ showing all 6 day routes for ISDT 1936
This will be a rolling task based on sparse information.. come back to see what we are finding. Aided by just two 1936 issues of ‘the Motor Cycle‘ and without the final day report this map and list of places is the best at the moment. Any Germans, Bavarians able to help please do. as ever •Bold = known checkpoints, Italics = I could not locate the place.
Sketch maps with known places here – https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zClKdDlICr2k.k3WbbSNwRPC8
11 Saturday May 2013
Image – scanned cover of Official Programme for the ISDT 1958 at Garmisch Parternkirchen (Courtesy of the collection of the late Mr Harro Esmarch)
This copy of the event programme is from a collection of documents that were gathered by the late Mr Harro Esmarch a German Motorsport Journalist and historian and have now been passed to our reliable european correspondent ‘STB’. As ever we are endebted to the many generous readers of this web blog about the ISDT for the gift of copies of the important documents and reports on the events which help many to recall past times as well as those like myself who were not there but want to know more or may be researching a project related to their family or the restoration of an old classic bike once ridden in the event. Without our contributors like ‘STB’ who has donated large amounts of often exclusive content to us much of the history the site protects would remain lost. Here we have a copy of the official programme of the ISDT 1958 event. In addition this copy has been annotated by hand to list corrections to rider machines and teams where they changed between the date of publication and event registration. Using our issuu.com library we can let those on devices that support ‘flash’ software the ability to read the original copy. If the below embedded image cant be accessed you can find a direct link to the file here.
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