Firsts and lasts

Firsts and a last hurrah

• First IoM TT win by a Manxman

• First standalone Lightweight 250cc TT

• First dohc machine to race in the Island

• First TT ride for Stanley Woods, career – 10 wins from 37 starts, 1922-1939

• First TT rider to have a bend named after him – author stretching a point!

• Last side-valve machine winning a TT

Entries and disappointment

By early April 1922, the Manx Motor Cycle Club had received 135 entries for three classes; 29 runners for the new 250cc Lightweight race scheduled for Tuesday, May 29, 34 machines for the Junior race also planned for May 29, and an impressive 66 men entered the Senior event on June 1, making a total of 129. The remaining six entries (five New Imperial and one Reg Lucas) hadn’t specified in which event they hoped to compete.

The importance of the IoM TT races to the factories is underlined by the list of machines and entrants:

Notes:

• The ACU had decreed, despite giving positive assurances they would favourably consider the matter, there would be no first amateur TT in 1922.

• The entry list published as practice week started confirmed a few absentees from the list and additions included Jock Porter, entered by The Motor Mart, Edinburgh, on his own designed and built New Gerrard-JAP (V-twin) for the Senior race and New