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Frederick Lee Frith OBE (30 May 1909 – 24 May 1988) [1] [2] was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion. [3] A former stonemason and later a motor cycle retailer in Grimsby, [4] he was a stylish rider and five times winner of the Isle of Man TT. Frith was one of the few to win TT races before and after the Second World War. [5]
Georg "Schorsch" Meier (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ʃɔʁʃ ˈmaɪɐ] ⓘ; 9 November 1910 – 19 February 1999) was a German motorcycle racer famous for being the first foreign winner of the prestigious Senior TT, the Blue Riband race of the Isle of Man TT Races, in 1939 riding for the factory BMW team and the first motorcycle racer to lap a Grand Prix course at over 100 mph. [1]
Beryl Swain (née Beryl J Tolman, 22 January 1936 – 15 May 2007) [1] was a female road racer of solo motorcycles from the London area. In 1962, she was the first woman to compete in a TT race for solo motorcycles on the Isle of Man TT course.
Harry Rembrandt 'Rem' Fowler (1882 – 1963 in Birmingham, England) was a British motorcycle racer famous for winning the twin-cylinder class of the inaugural 1907 Isle of Man TT races [3] A skilled toolmaker by trade, [ 2 ] H. Rem Fowler competed as a trials rider between 1903 and 1923 riding Ariel, New Hudson , and Rex motor-cycles and ...
Gustave Emil Kuhn (17 October 1898 – 30 August 1966) was a successful British TT and motorcycle speedway rider during the 1920s and 1930s. [1] He earned four international caps for the England national speedway team [2] and served in the Royal Naval Air Service in World War I.
[1] By this time he was living in Southbank Road, Kenilworth. Later, he would move to his final home in Warwick Road, Chadwick End, Solihull. [1] He continued to attend TT riders reunions, which started in 1937, and would visit Mallory Park with Albert Clarke. On one of these occasions he got to ride on the track, on an HRD model HD75 and an AJS.
Senior TT winner Freddie Frith at Quarterbridge (pictured during the Junior TT, in which he finished 2nd). The 1937 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy saw Freddie Frith break the 90+ mph lap for the first time during the Senior TT with a speed of 90.27 mph on his Norton beating Stanley Woods by only 15 seconds.
Mellors was one of a few pre-World War II British riders who realised that they could probably make more money by racing regularly in Grand Prix motorcycle racing events on the Continent. He won the French Grand Prix several times, in 1930 (250cc), 1936 (350cc) and 1937 (350cc and 500cc), as well as the Belgian Grand Prix in 1931, 1932 (250 cc ...