Images Dated 19th August 2015

Whitney straight wins international trophy race at Brooklands with average speed

Whitney straight wins international trophy race at Brooklands with average speed of 20 miles an hour.
Mr Whitney Straight, the young millionaire racing driver won the international Trophy Race at the Brooklands Track, Weybridge, Surrey, in which all the crack English drivers took part.
Photo shows, The Hon Brian Lewis who was second congratulating Mr Whitney Straight on his victory after the race.
28 March 1933 30s, 30's, 1930s, 1930's, thirties, nineteen thirties

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Isle Of Man: 24 year old Rhodesian, Gary Hocking won his first senior T.T. race

Isle Of Man: 24 year old Rhodesian, Gary Hocking won his first senior T.T. race here yesterday at the record speed of 103.51 m.p.h for the 226.4 miles of the mountain coarse
Pushing his machine to the limit, Hocking, this years Rhodesian "Federal Sportsman Of The Year" rode his M.V. Augusta 500 c.c. four cylinder machine to a record breaking lap of 105.75 M.P.H.
The previous record was set up by John Surtees in 1960 with a speed of 104.08 M.P.H.
Here, Hocking, who came to the country in 1958 from Bulawayo and holds an M.B.E., takes his machine into a right had corner approaching Governor's Bridge during the race.
Second was E. Boyce on a 499 c.c. Norton and third was F. Stevens, also riding a 499 c.c. Norton.
9 June 1962

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Man on horseback in front of grocers shop around Sevenoaks area, Kent. Advertisements and signs

Man on horseback in front of grocer's shop around Sevenoaks area, Kent. Advertisements and signs: "T. H. Knight, Draper, Grocer, Messer's Cronk Chartered Surveyors, 138 High Street, Sevenoaks. Brooke Bond Tea, Colman's Blue, Buy Leon's Coffee and Chicory Extract, Leon's Tea, Robin Starch for dainty linen, Spratt's Dog Cakes, Otford - Automobile Association, Plaza Super Cinema Poster: Simone Simon - Walter Winchell - Love and Hisses [1937]", smalltown, village, rural, atmospheric, street scene.
[box PLANET92157 - actual negative number 9215 (unknown archive)]
1937 - 1939, late 30s, early 40s ?

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