Now, have a look at the course from 1947 where bends were bends, before "they" started trimming and straightening.

http://www.bbhmg.com/memthree.htm

I would like your comments and observations please...

Basically the corners were corners in those days
Ian if you could blow up no 10 a bit more, because that looks very much like a stone wall in front of the raven??(middle of the pic)
If it is one word springs to mind!! ouch if you got it wrong

That's what it was Mike - aren't we lucky that it was gone by the time that we got there :!:

That was the stuff 7 and 8 lappers 3/4 plus hour races. Great memories.

Thanks for sharing.

Ian if that is a picture of of you sat on the bike shaking hands with John Williams sporting a muzzie I will pickle my nuts. Never in the world is that J.W unless you are not talking about the MV splitting J.W. but someone else.

What you say Pykey?

The John Williams pictured is the presumably the American John W; who is officially the first black rider ??? to ride in the TT

...."In 1978 in the F1 TT when John Williams came second the other John Williams on a Bill Smith 810 Honda finished 15th!"

Naw, this John Williams was entered by Bill Smith and I contributed to his entry requirements as well !! Rode a few years at the TT, he did..

Do not do that Ian !!!! I thought I had gone completely senile.

Ian, I found the pictures of Duke and Surtees weighing in amusing, I had forgotten that all riders and officials were expected to wear their best bib and tucker, at the least a jacket, if not a suit with a shirt and tie when we scrutineered and signed on pre race day before putting the bikes in the marquee overnight.

I would money its not JG but in my time there was 3 John Williams who rode at the TT.