Mark I clamps and saddle with cast brass components could be earlier still?
From some previously posted pictures here showing Anzani clamp assemblies hanging from the garage roof trusses, it appears I have Anzani Mark I or perhaps it could be an earlier racing clamp bracket and tower assembly as parts of the components instead of being aluminum cast are of cast brass, a much heavier material? They too fit the Anzani Mark 2 engine as well as the late model Silver Arrow gearcase. Most Mark 2 Silver Arrow gearcases started with water ram feed inlet at the bottom of the wedge type cigar nose point but some here at some point switched the water intake hole to above the cigar point on the housing proper but when in time is unknown. That change also has a similar revised rounded and pointed cigar similar to the Charles Harrison engine seen here. Some experimentation had obviously gone on.
Several board readers in the past had mentioned that Bill Tenney had a group or a couple of Anzanis that were called "The Sisters" that several noteable and historical drivers raced very sucessfully for Bill back in the 1960s. Can some readers that know something more about these Anzani Alky engine "Sisters" perhaps fill in with some stories and even pictures on what these sister engines were all about? Seems there is a lot to tell out there still about these historic and quick little engines. :)
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Identify this USA driver of this British Anzani powered Alky rig?
BRF UK member "Twister" came up with this picture. Can anyone identify the driver? The vintage of the Anzani engine? Some characteristics not found on most Anzani engines of this era?
There must be a ton of these kinds of pictures hidden away in some racing family picturebooks in terms of posed pictures.
I have a larger 2.5 meg BMP format larger picture available if it can help anyone ID the driver pictured.
People wear hats and sunglasses in the heat.
Good for you Mark 75H. If that is the case. :)
Most people on hot days at boat races wear hats and sunglasses and don't even shave on race weekends when not posing for pictures like that making it harder for them to be recognized by others seeing them in a picture like that for the very first time. Today was the first time I ever saw the picture. Seems you have more time to spend studying others with great intensity so when ever a face comes up in pictures for personal identification we will always give the job to you first. Don't ever fail us now. That would not be the future expectation. :)
That picture is so early by all accounts I still would have been a just a child gone to the races with his parents probably 4 or 5 years before I ever got involved as a pitman and then a racer. I would not have known what Bill Tenney looked like at that time.
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Bill Tenney's Origins - Fairhaven Lake - There was racing.
According to UK's Twister, this picture at Fairhaven Lake where there was outboard racing were going on? Twister is going to fill in what he can glean about the history involved here.
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More UK Racing with Tobby Sutton on the water.
More UK early years of racing with Tobby Sutton on the water. Twister might glean some history of the situation and place for readers. Seems to be of a time when helmets were not yet mandatory.