• The 1932 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy race meeting was watched by Prince George, Duke of Kent, the first royal visitor to the Isle of Man TT Races. The 1932...
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    The Isle of Man TT Mountain Course or TT Course or Jalmaf Mountain Course is a street and public rural road circuit located in the Isle of Man, used for...
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    entertainment. The annual Isle of Man TT motorcycle races start and finish in Douglas. It is generally agreed upon that the toponyms of English Douglas and...
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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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    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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    TT Grandstand, on the Snaefell Mountain Course used for the Isle of Man TT races on the primary A3 road, in the parish of Michael, in the Isle of Man...
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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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    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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    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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  • (sidecar rider). 17 Isle of Man TT wins Dr. Brian Stowell (1936–2019), radio personality and author, instrumental in the revival of the Manx Gaelic language...
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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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    Bob Foster (motorcyclist) (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    his first Isle of Man TT race riding a New Imperial in the 1935 Lightweight TT where he failed to finish. Foster won his first Isle of Man TT race 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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    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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    Douglas (motorcycles) (category Defunct motorcycle manufacturers of the United Kingdom)
    results, Isle of Man TT official website, archived from the original on 12 March 2007, retrieved 7 October 2006 1923 Sidecar TT results, Isle of Man TT official...
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  • Derek Minter (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    Northern Ireland. In 1962, he won the Isle of Man 250 cc Lightweight TT. Minter was born in the small village of Ickham and attended Littlebourne Primary...
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  • Gus Kuhn (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    As a rider in the TT, Kuhn's greatest success came in the 1926 Isle of Man TT in the Junior TT division. Results summary In 1932 Kuhn founded Gus Kuhn...
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    Graham Walker (motorcyclist) (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    He rode many times in the Isle of Man TT, winning the lightweight (250cc) class in 1931, and became president of the TT Riders Association. During World...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • The locomotives of the Isle of Man Railway were provided exclusively by Beyer, Peacock & Company of Manchester, England between 1873 and 1926; other locomotives...
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  • Freddie Dixon (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    becoming the first man to win both a sidecar and solo race at the Isle of Man TT. He retired from motorcycle racing in 1928. In 1932, he appeared on the...
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    Helen section of the A3 Castletown to Ramsey road including Sarah’s Cottage was part of the St John's Short Course used for the Isle of Man TT races between...
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  • April 2017. "1932 Indianapolis 500". racing-reference.info. Racing Reference. Retrieved 15 April 2017. "TT 1932". iomtt.com. Isle of Man TT. Retrieved 15...
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    Cyril Pullin (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    motorcycle racer and in 1914 won the Isle of Man TT race. In 1914 Cyril Pullin won the Isle of Man TT with a record average of 49.49 mph (79.65 km/h) on a Rudge...
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  • Ted Frend (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    in the Senior at the 1950 Isle of Man TT. In the 1953 Isle of Man TT he rode a Norton to seventh. In 1954 he rode his last TT. He continued to ride motorcycles...
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    Fergus Anderson (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    competition at the 1932 Spanish Grand Prix. In 1937 Anderson entered his first Isle of Man TT race, competing in both the Junior and Senior TT races aboard...
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    Wal Handley (category Isle of Man TT riders)
    a champion British inter-war motorcycle racer with four wins at the Isle of Man TT Races in his career. Later he also raced cars in the 1930s and died...
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