SCOOTER MANIA! (eBook)

- Recollections of the Isle of Man International Scooter Rally

Steve Jackson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
128 Seiten
Veloce (Verlag)
978-1-78711-700-6 (ISBN)

Infos

At last! A year-on-year account of the Isle of Man International Scooter Rally, including competitors and organiser's personal experiences, and the controversies and difficulties experienced by the Rally Committee in what became a remarkable, 20-year chapter in the history of scootering sport. Events included endurance and navigational trials, hill climbs, scrambling, gymkhana competitions, circuit and closed road racing, assembly rallies and sand racing. Supported by 180 images from the period.

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At last! A year-on-year account of the Isle of Man International Scooter Rally, the brainchild of WWI veteran-turned-politician, James Mylchreest Cain. Following a fact-finding mission to Dusseldorf, accompanied by Peter Agg from Lambretta, the second Rally went International for 1958, and was to grow in popularity throughout the 1960s, attracting competitors from countries as far and wide as Australia, USA, Rhodesia, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Czechoslovakia and India.
In addition to gymkhana and endurance events, closed-road and circuit racing attracted fast men such as Neville Frost, John and Norman Ronald, Ray Kemp, Andy Smith, and Norrie Kerr. In 1971, the then chairman of the Tourist Board, Bill Quayle, declared that the annual Scooterist week was "the most important cog in the mosaic of Manx tourism." The author's access to personal photographic archives, and Manx Press pictures, combined with period reports and interviews with competitors, builds a unique reconstruction of a hugely successful event on the scootering sporting calendar: an event that was to endure for 20 years and attract thousands of spectators.

Autor

Steve Jackson bought his first Scooter at the age of 17, and attended his first Scooter Rally, at Morecambe, in 1984. A nomadic lifestyle followed, including memberships of Scooter Clubs in Birmingham, London and Devon, attending National Rallies, and sleeping in leaking tents. His interests later veered towards classic cars and motorbikes, but he never really got over his first passion.
After several years of studying and working in Scotland, in 2010 he was appointed as a Library and Archives Assistant at the Manx Museum, in Douglas, providing the inspiration for this project. The acquisition of a new Vespa PX 150 soon followed!

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.1.2020
• Verlagsort: Exeter
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Motor- / Rad- / Flugsport
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Andre Baldet • Bond • Closed Road Racing • Druidale • Eddie Crooks • Freddie Frith • International Scooter Rally • Isle of Man • John Ronald • Lambretta • Lambretta Club of Great Britain • Manx • Manx 400 • Mike Karslake • Neville Frost • new edtion • Norrie Kerr • Reprint • Scooter and Scooterist • Scooter Girl • Scooter Racing • Scooter World • Steve Jackson • Team S Equipe • TT • TT Circuit • TT Course • Tynwald Trophy • V4648 • Vespa • Vespa Club of Britain
• ISBN-10: 1-78711-700-6 / 1787117006
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78711-700-6 / 9781787117006