“By 1929, CJP Dodson was a bona fide top level road racer , pretty much unbeatable on the sand, too.”
The diminutive Charlie Dodson was the last man to win a TT, the 1928 Senior, on a ‘flat-tank’ machine, then the next year became the first (and only) winner of a TT on a saddle tank Sunbeam, as well as recording the last ever success in the Island for the Marston maker.
Charles Joseph Pearson (though ‘Pownall’ has also been suggested) Dodson was born December 6, 1901, youngest of four boys, in Didsbury, near Manchester, son of a successful barrister, who died when Charlie was just
