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    list is of fatal crashes on the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course used for the Isle of Man TT races, Manx Grand Prix and Classic TT races. The TT Course was...
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    The 1931 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy was again dominated by the battle between Rudge, Sunbeam and Norton motorcycles. The 1931 Junior TT Race was run at...
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    The 1938 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy saw the Senior TT lap record of 90.27 mph set by Freddie Frith the previous year broken in 1938 when Harold Daniell...
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    during the Isle of Man TT festival, an annual event traditionally held over the last week in May and the first week in June. The Senior TT is the blue...
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    Jimmy Simpson (motorcyclist) (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    in both the Senior TT and Junior TT races on the Isle of Man, as well as the Sidecar TT, in which he finished fifth. In the Senior TT he failed to finish...
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  • Bob Anderson (racing driver) (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    finished second to world champion John Surtees at the 1958 Senior TT race at the Isle of Man, then considered the most prestigious motorcycle race on the world...
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    Stanley Woods (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    for 29 motorcycle Grand Prix wins in the 1920s and 1930s, winning the Isle of Man TT races ten times in his career, plus wins at Assen and elsewhere. He...
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    a breed of domestic cat (Felis catus) originating on the Isle of Man, with a mutation that shortens the tail. Many Manx have a small stub of a tail, but...
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    Supertwin TT is a motorcycle road race that is a part of the Isle of Man TT festival - an annual motorcycle event traditionally held over the last week of May...
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    Graham Walker (motorcyclist) (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    an average of 80 mph. Walker also won the 350cc class at the 1931 North West 200, again on a Rudge. He rode many times in the Isle of Man TT, winning the...
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    Rudge-Whitworth (category Year of disestablishment missing)
    advantage of a quick-change wheel was obvious. At the 1908 Isle of Man TT race, 21 of the 35 entrants used Rudge-Whitworth wheels, and only one of the finishers...
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  • his only participation in the Isle of Man TT, finishing thirteenth in the 250 cc Lightweight TT. In the first half of the 1930s, Fernihough took part...
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  • Tom Phillis (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    road racing World Championship and was the first person to lap the Isle of Man TT mountain circuit at over 100 mph on a pushrod engined motorcycle. He...
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    Omobono Tenni (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    career was winning the 250cc Lightweight TT at the 1937 Isle of Man TT, becoming the first Italian to win the TT. In 1937 he also won the 250cc European...
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    and, the Isle of Man TT motorcycle road circuit first used in 1907. The exceptions were the steeply banked egg-shaped near oval circuit of Brooklands...
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  • Jock West (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    Ariel factory would sponsor him at the 1931 Manx Grand Prix. West progressed to compete in the 1933 Isle of Man TT where he impressed Triumph manager Edward...
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    native to the Isle of Man speak Manx as a first language, there has been a steady increase in the number of speakers since the death of Ned Maddrell in...
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    The Junior TT is a motorcycle road race that takes place during the Isle of Man TT festival; an annual event at the end of May and beginning of June. Between...
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    Jimmie Guthrie (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    on three occasions and a further six wins at the Isle of Man TT races. While leading on the last lap of the 1937 German Motorcycle Grand Prix, Jimmie Guthrie...
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    Rupert Hollaus (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    Prix. His victory at the 1954 Isle of Man TT was notable because he was one of only seven riders to have won an Isle of Man TT race in their first attempt...
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  • April 2017. "1931 Indianapolis 500". racing-reference.info. Racing Reference. Retrieved 15 April 2017. "TT 1931". iomtt.com. Isle of Man TT. Retrieved 15...
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    Henry Tyrell-Smith (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    Trinity College, Dublin for a B.A. And B.A.I.degree. He raced at the Isle of Man TT from 1927 to 1939, and between 1929 and 1936 competed in the German...
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    AJS (category Defunct bus manufacturers of the United Kingdom)
    gears and chain final drive. AJS achieved their first TT victory in the Junior 1914 Isle of Man TT race that year through Eric Williams, whilst also taking...
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  • Charles Franklin (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    and third place in the 1911 Isle of Man TT, finishing in second place. Franklin was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2016. Franklin was...
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  • fashion retail chain No Limit (1931 film), starring Clara Bow No Limit (1935 film), a comedy about the Isle of Man TT Race, starring George Formby and...
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    improvements. In 1929 Scott achieved third place in the Isle of Man TT and launched a road going TT Replica Flying Squirrel. Following cost cutting the factory...
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  • Frank Perris (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    Isle of Man TT races in 1949, Perris was inspired to race and for 1950 sold his BSA Blue Star, instead buying a 1934 250 cc Velocette MOV and a 1931 Norton...
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  • multiple Isle of Man TT winner and motorcycle Grand Prix road racing world champion Colin Hardman, sidecar racer. Winner of the 1989 Isle of Man TT Sidecar...
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    knew nothing about racing (the last Rolls-Royce entries in a TT race were on the Isle of Man in 1905 and 1906 – winning in 1906). He would be responsible...
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    Jim Redman (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    a six-time Isle of Man TT winner, taking double wins in 1963, 1964 and 1965 in the Lightweight & Junior TT Races. He achieved a total of 45 Grand Prix...
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