Excerpts from Mirage News Winter 1951
Members of the Exiles after a race at RAF Deversoir. Ken Lowson is second from the right.
Getting ready for an Open Time Trial, the Phoenix Road Club (Abyad) 30 mile event held on 13th June 1954. It happened to be outside Kasfareet because one of the favourite time trial courses started at kilo 49 (to Ismailia) and this 30 mile event turned at kilo 25 (15 miles0 for the return leg. This photo would have been taken at around 05.30 on Sunday morning because it shows the lads still arriving and preparing for the race. The first man was off at 06.01 and there were 45 starters. Eric Beauchamp won it with 1 hour, 12 minutes, 44 seconds, Ron mills of Abu Sueir was second with 1 -14 - 06 and I was third with 1 - 16 - 20
In the picture - extreme left, Terry Wesley, chap stroking his neck is Ginger Ayres of Abyad, chap next to him stroking his chin is Ron Walsh of Deversoir and the one in white shirt and white socks is Norman Stone of the Satire CC - REME at Fayid. The gharri in the background is one of several which brought chaps from as far afield as Abu Sueir and Tel El Kebir....Thanks to John Basell for this write up.
In the picture - extreme left, Terry Wesley, chap stroking his neck is Ginger Ayres of Abyad, chap next to him stroking his chin is Ron Walsh of Deversoir and the one in white shirt and white socks is Norman Stone of the Satire CC - REME at Fayid. The gharri in the background is one of several which brought chaps from as far afield as Abu Sueir and Tel El Kebir....Thanks to John Basell for this write up.
March 2nd 2011..John Basell submitted the above picture and the one below which were also taken of the same event.
This picture shows more of the PSI Gharries that would have brought the chaps from other stations. It`s taken a bit later than the first photo because the riders are already being started. You can see that people are looking across the road to the start point. Henry Mainwaring (5355 Sqn) is sitting down in the foreground. I am standing up hitching up my shorts. Pete Curtis (3 Tech Wing) is the chap astride his bike on the right of the picture. ( Peter didn`t have an Exiles jersey).
This picture shows more of the PSI Gharries that would have brought the chaps from other stations. It`s taken a bit later than the first photo because the riders are already being started. You can see that people are looking across the road to the start point. Henry Mainwaring (5355 Sqn) is sitting down in the foreground. I am standing up hitching up my shorts. Pete Curtis (3 Tech Wing) is the chap astride his bike on the right of the picture. ( Peter didn`t have an Exiles jersey).
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Peter Curtis again but this time being held up on the other side of the road (by the lido/sailing club) waiting for the " 5 4 3 2 1 Off " to be called by the timekeeper who is sitting in the crowd by the kilostone in the other group picture. By that time I was already several miles up the road having been pushed off at No 19, Peter was off at No 43. |
Check out near the bottom of Alan Kennedy`s Page for his write up of a week-end in Jerusalem in 1947 taking part in the Israeli Seven Sisters Hill Climb at Qastal near Jerusalem.
Maurice ( Butch ) Hart with Les Archer on the right pose on the Suez Canal Road in 1955
And some 25 years later meet near Warwick after racing on K24
( and now in 2015, even that second reunion was 35 ago !!!!!! )
And here is another Deja vue
And well met again in April 2001, some 46 years later
Below...a recent Facebook posting forwarded to me by Frank Petter January 7th 2016
