Exiles & Road Racing

A gathering together in the Exiles Club House 
includes Carlo Di Giovanni ( Manchester R.C. ) and Ron Pitts ( Addiscombe C.C. )

                                    


                                   Circuit of the Canal Zone

                                    Prior to the start at  RAF Kasfareet
     "Of course the Exiles will win" - Les line shooting to `Ginger` Weavers
               The Start first day - RAF Kasfareet to RAF Abu-Sueir
                Part of the field near Abu-Sultan on the Canal Road
                The Exiles team wagon at Ismailia after the second day
                  2nd day from RAF Ismailia to Port Said- Time trial






DESOLATION    ! ! ! -  Whiffin (Exiles CC) chases the field up the Treaty Road
               The start from Ismailia.  Les wearing cap with Ron Moffat
   Chas Clarke attempts a breakaway at the Abu-Sultan feeding station

                                            
                                          Exiles in Cyprus

                                                        General repairs by the wayside
                               Kyrenia harbour and mountains
                    Mount Carbonard, Villa Paradise, Pera - Pedhi
Dennis Boulton, Frank Lewis,Terry Wesley and Les on the summit Mount Olympus some 6403 feet high
Frank Lewis, Terry Wesley, Ron Clarkson, Les and Dennis Boulton at Platres in the Troodos Mountains
                                      And now departing Platres for Troodos



The RAF Cycling Team including Exiles in Habbaniya and Baghdad May 1955

                              Pete Curtis, Baz, Butch Carr and Ken Croucher with armed escort
                                                                     Pre race scene

                               Les `s Exiles related pictures.


                           Click the small pics to enlarge ! ! !

                           
                            5-4-3-2-1-GO  !
Ron Mills, Abu Sueir C.C.  The first and last man to beat the hour 59 - 59
           Turn in the Inter- Command " 50 "
                Maurice Hart - Exiles C.C.
                                                                 Everybodies Hero

  Jim Armitage-Exiles C.C. & South Bradford R.C.
                    Abduls, Chas and Ron
 Butch, Baz, Jim and Wes - Canal Road
           Butch, Carr, Ron Pitt, Carlo di Giovanni
 Exiles group after an early season training bash
           Still there - too knackered to move
                  Nearing the finish of A25
Ginger Ayers and Brian Watson Abyad  Wheelers
                                                            The gangs all here...at the Lido
   Ron Smith-Exiles and Long Eaton Paragon CC
                              Why worry   !
         Wes winning the Grand Prix de Kasfareet
            Circuit of Canal South in 1954
                Billy Bentham Abu Sueir CC
    John Horne, Aberdeen and Abu Sueir CC
                  Chas Clarke and Les breakaway in 
                           The Circuit of Canal North
         Ron Smith receives his award
                                                     

                                                     Jeff Sanders - official machine tester
                Dick Crook-CIJ Viger  Burnley
        Derek Parker..St Blazey  Cornwall
                                                   Ron Pitt...Exiles CC  and  Addiscombe CC
       Jock Millar and Ron Clarkson.. Fayid CC
Harry Tayson with the Exiles Speedway " Hiron "

                                    


                                    Cycling out and about in the Zone

      Canal Road near Ismailia-" Gebel Maryam "
             The Mosque on the Canal Road
                                          Roy Manser - Exiles CC - San Fairy Ann CC, Kent
           Ismailia, near the native quarter
                 Lake Timsah - YMCA Beach
  Wes & bike at kilo 1 Ismailia
         Canal Road near Deversoir Point. Vessel heading south

                                                 Port Said

Local Mounted Police
                                                               Gion Olas Restaurant
                           A view fro Abbas Quay-Port Fuad.
Another view from Abbas Quay over towards Port Said
                                                                   A view from the park
                                         Deversoir Point

         
                                                 and also

                                         That mosque again beside the Canal Road
                                               Les, left at the 1 kilo marker near Ismailia