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I’m “on a roll” as they say, so more pics from Australian racing…. Enjoy!
… please acknowledge the source should you capture an image and feel free to do so.
Left click on images to enlarge, where possible.
The first photo shows Les Diener with his new 1949 Mk.8 KTT, outside the premises of Borgelt's in Adelaide, the South Australian Velocette Distributor.

The second photo shows Les Diener again, unloading his trailer at the April, 1949 Australian GP motorcycle races at Bathust, NSW, after the 1000 mile drive from Adelaide..... interesting bikes on the trailer.

The third photo shows your estwhile editor aboard his then 1958 MSS ( Venom cams, MSS piston and 19T sprocket, otherwise standard and rode it to and from the meeting..timed at 99.2 mph along the slightly downhill 1¼ mile straight) chasing a Triumph in the Unlimited B & C grade races...came home 9th, Easter Motorcycle races, Bathurst NSW 1964.

Final picture is taken outside Bain and Kessing's motorcycle shop, Liverpool Road, Enfield, Sydney, during 1948 and shows one of the prewar DOHC works Velocette engines in a KTT frame...no front brake likely indicates it was going or had been used for some record attempt...

Another selection of Australian racing Velocette oriented photos....

Looking at the statistics for the viewing of this blog…there of course are a great many out on the internet not from Australia where I live who wouldn’t be exposed to photos of Australian racing, in particular Velocette years ago.
Australia was a big market for Veloce Ltd up perhaps until the late 1950s and so racing machines from the factory frequently were sent to Sydney and Melbourne for the use of ace locals to promote the image of Velocette….very successfully I might add.
So continueing in following blogs I’ll run a series of photos, not in any particular order and encompassing road racing, scrambling, short circuit ( a local form of grass track is the best description ) and individuals with descriptions etc.
For those interested in the racing history of Velocette, a perhaps new source of material for your own use or for publication in the future… please acknowledge the source should you capture an image and feel free to do so.

First photo is of Stanley Woods with the works SOHC "dog-kennel" 350 Velocette at Phillip Island Feb.1937.

The second has Les Diener #31, KTT special and Alan Burt #15, Waggott DOHC Velo engined special...."hard at it", Mildura, Victoria, early 1950s.

The third is Billy Woodman on a Velocette KDT, leading Cec Weatherby, likely on a Mk.4 KTT at Penrith speedway, west of Sydney June 1936, during a heat of the 350 Australian Championship.

Final Shot shows Ernie Ring #14, Manx Norton with Dave Jenkins #88, likely on a P & R Williams ex.works KTT, e/no.KTT1030,Mt.Druitt, west of Sydney, late 1940s.

Left click on images to enlarge, where possible.

Looking at the statistics for the viewing of this blog…there of course are a great many out on the internet not from Australia where I live who wouldn’t be exposed to photos of Australian racing, in particular Velocette years ago.
Australia was a big market for Veloce Ltd up perhaps until the late 1950s and so racing machines from the factory frequently were sent to Sydney and Melbourne for the use of ace locals to promote the image of Velocette….very successfully I might add.
So in following blogs I’ll run a series of photos, not in any particular order

and encompassing road racing, scrambling, short circuit ( a local form of grass track is the best description ) and individuals with descriptions etc.
For those interested in the racing history of Velocette, a perhaps new source of material for your own use or for publication in the future… please acknowledge the source should you capture an image and feel free to do so.

The first photo is at the Bathurst, NSW, April 1949, Junior Aust.GP, third lap with Jack Ahearn#31 (Velo) leading Sid Willis #15 ( Velo), Lloyd Hirst(Velo) partly obscured and Dave Jenkins(Velo) out of the main straight. Willis finished 2nd.

The second photo is of 17 year old Ron Teasdale at the Blacktown circuit near Sydney in October 1940...on a borrowed machine, note the rib front tyre, likely a bike ridden to the meeting and stripped of some road equiptment to race...Ron won the Junior non expert event.