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What did the ISDT riders do during the war?
Image scanned photo from article ‘the Recorder’ 21 June 1941 BRITISH DESPATCH RIDERS.—”Swift and Sure” is the motto of the Royal Corps of Signals’ of Britain’s Army. Many of its motor cycle despatch...
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Mapping the ISDT: Wales 1937
#3 in a series is still on the drawing board to be started when 1933 is finished. This post is for now just to put online the maps and check details should anybody be curious enough to wish to give it...
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Recent images taken along the route: ISDT 1938 Wales
The ongoing mapping of the ISDT route and the availability of Google Streetview makes it fairly easy to see the locations that featured on the route maps as Checkpoints, Fuel and Lunch Stops and other...
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Mapping the ISDT: Wales 1954
Carrying on with the project we remain slightly handicapped by the low availability of original route maps. However there are fairly accurate maps of the course in the programmes although we do not yet...
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British Team Selection event Bagshot and Brooklands: ISDT 1939
Preparing for the International Great Britain’s Trophy and Vase team selected after strenuous tests at Bagshot Heath and Brooklands. This is my 100th Speedtracktales Blog Post and whilst this is not as...
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The Great Escape revisited: British entrants in ISDT 1939
Persons familiar with the inter war years will no doubt be familiar that Germany particularly enjoyed hosting world sporting events so that they could exhibit the fatherland’s prowess in ability and...
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ISDT 1939: Germany’s Proposed Revision of the “International” Rules
In the frontispiece editorial in the 8th December 1938 issue of the Motor Cycle the article reproduced below indicates British concerns about proposals being made by Germany as hosts of the ISDT 1939...
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ISDT 1950: Six Thrilling Days – A Journalist’s report
the ISDT 1950 saw the Silver Jubilee of the International Six Days Trial. In the 5th October edition of ‘the Motor Cycle‘ appeared a three page photo review written by George Wilson based on his own...
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Welcome to the Speedtracktales Library and Shop
When I restarted Taff’s site, all I had to begin with was a website copied to a harddisk drive that I had been able to download in its entirety from his old server. Since then I have been greatly...
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Internationally Famous: Royal Enfield at the ISDT 1948 – 1953
“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...
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ISDT 1951: George Wilson asks Where do we go from here?
The following article about the ISDT 1951 appeared in the 4th October 1951 issue of ‘the Motor Cycle‘ and in which George asks a number of questions about the venue for the event, the future of the...
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Merry Xmas 2013 and a Happy New Year for all of our readers and supporters
Image – Happy Xmas 2013 and a prosperous New Year #116 JH Arnott 496cc BSA Großglockner ISDT 1939 (Image courtesy TECHNISCHEN MUSEUM WIEN) Thanking our many many visitors in 2013 and especially those...
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ISDT Image Archive: The Stilltime Collection
Recently noticed in the last few months a new collection of very old Photos started coming up in Google Searches although they appear to have existed since at least 2012. A number of the photos I have...
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The SOS end of year . . can you identify if any of these images come from an...
A kind random end of year post letting you, the reader, join in the fun of putting places and names to pictures…. The basic ISDT keyword search of the still time has unearthed a quality haul of 518...
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Mapping the ISDT: Germany / Austria 1939
In this Post we are going to create from modern geographic information such as Google Maps, the route of the ISDT 1939. I needed to have a list of destinations for the event to help tagging a recently...
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ISDT 1939: Day five & six reports as published in ‘Das Motorrad’ magazine
This post is a serialisation of an article that originally appeared over 75 years ago in ‘Das Motorrad’, the popular Motorcycling magazine in the German Language as it covered the proceedings of the...
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Mapping the ISDT: Germany 1936
Uh oh here I go again, lets get mapping. Any tips or clues welcome as we are a bit short on detail other than this map. Image – map from ‘Motor Cycling’ showing all 6 day routes for ISDT 1936 This will...
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Mapping the ISDT : 1975 Isle of Man
We’re not yet ready to start this one as we still have Wales to finish but if anybody has higher quality maps than these low resolution images we have acquired to help improve accuracy or has personal...
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Mapping the ISDT: 1935 Germany
Based at Obertsdörf in South East Germany, the second of a three year stint which immediately after a limit of no more than two events in succession could be held in one country, the following two...
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ISDT 1937: Images from event report ‘Das Motorrad’ 24 July 1937 Issue 30
‘Need a job done go find a busy man’ so the old maxim goes and like rust we never find time to sleep at Speedtracktales. Just before Xmas as the project of mapping the routes began an original copy of...
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