Under the Chequered Flag

Robert ‘Orrie’ Salter

Long-time sidecar campaigner ROBERT ‘ORRIE’ SALTER passed away in March at his home in Queensland. He had recently suffered a broken hip in a fall and failed to recover from surgery.

Salter, who owned a motorcycle shop at Bexley in Sydney’s south, raced sidecars for decades but came to prominence when he purchased the ex-Bob Mitchell Norton which at that point (1958) was acknowledged as the finest racing sidecar in Australia. He took the Norton to England and competed in the 1960 Isle of Man Sidecar TT, and when he returned to Australia he brought with him a genuine BMW Rennsport racing sidecar on which he