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I just got my Suzuki Swift Sport Rallycup Car today from my brother which back from SGP just now.

My latest Suzuki Swift Sport Rallycup Car

Found this SHH Body kit for CKD Swift in SwiftClubBrunei

I was not blogging for a week bcoz i went for vacation for last week.
Came back from KL yesterday morning and saw a ferrari drove pass my car quite fast.
I can feel the exhaust noise when it passed me; it's a ferrari....
Anyone know which model is this?

Years back, likely in the mid 1960s I took up a correspondence with Barry Sewell, then living in South Africa and an occasional contributor to "South African MotorCycle News".
Barry hailed from Northern Ireland and was a keen supporter of GP motorcycle racing and had been a dab hand with a camera...He had all these neat pics and negatives, the internet didn't exist, no such thing as emails...aghh!
We resolved the problem with a huge leap of faith by Barry...despite having never met, I recal telephoning him, he posted me many of his precious negatives and photos, half way across the world, and I made prints from the negatives, copies off the photos and then prints...a set for him and a set for me. then I returned the precious cargo to him.
He was delighted...my joy was unbounded!
Well it's time to share some with you and to acknowledge Barry's effort and ownership of these pics that follow in this and subsequent blogs.
Sadly I've lost contact with him...he returned to Northern Ireland when he retired and I regret to admit I don't know if he is still alive....I sure hope so and who knows, a viewer of this blog may put us back in contact again...
Left click on the images to enlarge.
Just so you know what he looked like...first pic is at the 1954 Ulster Grand Prix ( UGP) with what I'm sure is NZer Rod Coleman's factory three valve 7R3 AJS.














The photos in this blog are mostly from the Scarborough circuit in Northern England, with some from UGP.
This next shot is Johnnie Locket on a 348cc Norton, but the date I'm unsure if Sept. 1951 or 1957.


















This shot is M.P.O'Rourke, 348 AJS 7R, Scarborough, Sept. 1953.


















Geoff Duke, works Gilera, Scarborough, year unsure but likely same year as the following photo which is of Reg Armstrong, also on a works Gilera at Scarborough in Sept. 1954.








































Off now to the UGP... Geoff Duke again,works Gilera, 1956.


















Francis Beart the renowned Norton tuner, fettling a 499cc Manx Norton for Terry Shepherd, UGP 1960.
























Another works Gilera rider at the 1952 UGP...Enrico Colnago, seeming stopped with a spot of bother....

I've mentioned before of my photographic archive collected over many years and from many sources whose identity is long forgotten.
This selection comes from photos who I do not know the copyright of, although one or two have the imprint "MotorCycling Copyright" and so I duly acknowledge this via Mortons Motorcycle Media, current owners of the former "The MotorCycle" and "MotorCycling".
All of the photographs have pencilled notations on the back, often with comprehensive results and lap times.
Left click on images to enlarge....
The first three pics feature the diminutive Spanish rider M.Simo, who entered 250 and 350 Terrot machines in the mid 1930s.
The one of Simo with riding number 9 from the 1937 IOM TT races is interesting....
"..Junior race 350 Terrot completed two laps and then spilled at Glentrammon corner, Ramsey. Unfit to start in the lightweight race..."














































Rex Judd,later to become a well known London Motorcycle dealer is featured in the next snap... "..19th at 55.09mph, awarded the Nisbet Award for pluck and endurance, 4hrs 38 secs race time. rode in 6 races 1921-25 period, finished in the one illustrated..."















Below is Bob Foster, better known post WW2 for his Velocette exploits, but pictured here on a 1936 TT 250 New Imperial, with his wife beside him. Noted as having ridden in 17 TT races and won 2, finishing in 6.
Another strange penned notation notes that "the chap 3rd from the left is Jack Williams' ( of 7R AJS development fame) father."















From Czechoslovakia, GW Platchett is shown on a Senior TT Jawa at the 1932 IOM TT.
"Rode in 3 races, finishing in one. But not on the machine featured on which he completed 5 laps and then retired."















Pictured below is S.Jackson aboard a 246cc Montgomery-JAP which he rode in the 1928 IOM Junior TT and finished 8th.
"He rode in 8 races and finished in 6."















The final picture is SV Smith on a 250 OK Supreme in the 1938 IOM Lightweight TT during evening practice.
"..finished 15th in the race but disqualified ( lost exhaust pipe).."
Gert Boll, a keen Velocette man from Germany and a reader of my blog picked up the error of the year. I had 1928, when it was 1938, which I've now corrected.
Gert asked then whose Velo is in the foreground?
It seems to be a Mk.7 KTT and a search of the 1938 TT program and the entries reveals #38 is H.C.Lamacraft, entered by the London dealer L.J.Stevens Ltd....look at the front number and you can see the 3 and what appears to be an 8.