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tt winner - Anonymous - 09-11-2004

can you help with an answer please..
who was the first manx man to win he TT race.

Thank you
Gillian
november 2004




Re: tt winner - Anonymous - 09-11-2004

Tom Sheard - 1922 Junior TT - AJS; also 1923 Senior TT - Douglas
Tom used to say he wasn't really a road racer, it was just that he knew where the bends were!



Re: tt winner - Anonymous - 09-11-2004

Gillian, here is a bit more on Tom Sheard, which may be interesting.
His 1922 win in the Junior on an AJS was memorable not only because he was the first Manxman
to win a TT but it was to the first win on the new Mountain Course as we know it today.
It was also in the same year that the famous Stanley Wood rode his first TT at the age of 18.
Tom Sheard rode his first TT in 1913 on a Rudge and came 6th.
The 1923 Senior victory on the Douglas was the first for a Manxman and it was to be an 80 year
wait for the next Manxman, Gary Carswell to win the next one.
The Douglas he rode was fitted with disc brakes, which had v, shaped shoes that pressed onto the discs.
I think this was the first time discs were used in racing but I will not stick my neck out.
1923 was a special year also because it was the first time that sidecars raced at the TT. Freddy Dixon won on
another Douglas. Another name to have his first ride in 1923 was Jimmy Guthrie.
There is a video of Tom winning the race, which I have never seen, see the website below:
<A HREF="http://www.spectel.demon.co.uk/titles.htm">http://www.spectel.demon.co.uk/titles.htm</A>

Six years after his Senior win Tom was one of two Manxmen to be first to fly across the Irish Sea in a
DH61 Giant Moth flown by Sir Alan Cobham. They left from Maughold.

What wonderful days they must have been.




Re: tt winner - Anonymous - 09-11-2004

I seem to remember seeing the bike on the antiques roadshow, when its was broadcast from the island a few years ago, any one else remember this?



Re: tt winner - Anonymous - 11-11-2004

Don,

Do you mean Richard Quayle (400 winner 2002)?

Fairly certain Gary Carswell hasn't won a TT (best result 3rd in Senior this year?).

I thought that another Manx man won a TT in the 50's but can't remember a name Derek or Dennis or something (memories not what it was old chap).

Sam



Re: tt winner - Anonymous - 11-11-2004

Yes Sam I was expecting a bit of help on this one but very little was forthcoming. I bet old Snelling is just sitting back and having a bit of a laugh.



Re: tt winner - Anonymous - 11-11-2004

Gary Carswell won the Senior Manx in 1997.
Just cannot rely on some of the info I get sometimes!!!



Re: tt winner - Anonymous - 11-11-2004

Believe Neil Kelly 1967 production 500cc winner was a manxman riding a Velocette Thruxton