ISDT 1948: Event reports – ‘the Motor Cycle’

18 Sunday May 2014

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ISDT, ISDT 1948, Italy, Royal Enfield, San Remo

Recently arrived at the Speedtracktales Checkpoint central was the two issues of ‘the Motor Cycle’ of 16th and 23rd September 1948 with a full report on the opening of the ISDT 1948, which was held at San Remo, Italy.

The British Trophy Team. Left to right: C.N. Rogers (346 Royal Enfield); Allan Jefferies (498 Triumph), captain; J Williams (499 Norton); B.H.M. Viney (498 AJS); Vic Brittain (346 Royal Enfield) ISDT 1948

You can read both of the articles by following this link to our issuu.com library.

16th September 1948 – ‘the Motor Cycle‘

23rd September 1948 – ‘the Motor Cycle‘

The following summary of the event appeared in the editorial of ‘the Motor Cycle‘ 23rd September 1948

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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

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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