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General => Douglas Racers and Racing History => Topic started by: Dirt Track on 19 Mar 2006 at 05:39
G'day all
A good few years ago now I bought a job lot of early motorcycle posters at Beaulieu Autojumble whilst over on holidays, a couple are for Douglas.
Here they are.
Howard.
(https://www.douglasmotorcycles.net/aa-files/images/dirt-track/2006/douglas-first-poster-420.jpg)
Larger view (https://www.douglasmotorcycles.net/aa-files/images/dirt-track/2006/douglas-first-poster-1000.jpg)
(https://www.douglasmotorcycles.net/aa-files/images/dirt-track/2006/douglas-shifting-420.jpg)
Larger view (https://www.douglasmotorcycles.net/aa-files/images/dirt-track/2006/douglas-shifting-1000.jpg)
Thanks Howard, these are great.
Something that's always intrigued me is the names of the events in those days - eg on the first poster above it mentions "600cc Scratch". Do you know exactly what a "Scratch" race was?
On this page of my Dad's racing results (http://www.kynoch-douglas-parts.com/html/racing/Alex%20Kynoch%27s%20race%20results.htm), there's a few of these terms - Scramble, Grand National, Grand Prix, All Powers Scratch, All Powers Handicap, Solo Handicap and so forth.
Do you know what kind of events the "Grand National" and the "Grand Prix" were?
Dave