Blackheath TT Revisited
is the first issue I’ve ever read and it won’t be the last. As my family lived in and around Leura for many years, the Blackheath TT article caught my attention. I wondered straight away whether any of my family would recall the TT being held. I was pleasantly surprised to find my father Maurice Jones as a spectator in the photo of Harry Hinton rounding Govetts corner. Dad is standing 2nd from the far right holding a box brownie camera which I still have in my study. Sadly we don’t have the photo’s he took. Dad also enjoyed competing in some amateur racing in a motor bike club in the Katoomba district. He was 17 years old at the time of the TT photo and rode a 1930 350 Ariel. His father Reg rode a 1928 Douglas but alas nobody knows what happened to either machine. A year later dad was serving in New Guinea and later in Borneo. After his return home he used a Triumph with a sidebox in his sign writing business around the Blue Mountains district. The photo shows dad and his brother John on the Ariel. Stephen Jones Scone, NSW