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    Readers’ Letters

    Oct 30, 2019 3 minutes

    Meddling about

    I enjoyed the ‘Men who mattered’ piece in the November 2019 issue, regarding H G Tyrell Smith. One small fact missing from the article was that Tyrell competed in the first 1930 Pioneer Run (copy of programme attached) as rider number 37, competing on a 1912 499cc Rudge; appropriate given that he was a Rudge factory rider at that point in time and one of a team of Rudge riders in that event, including Graham Walker and Ernie Nott.

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