SEVENTY YEARS AGO

For all the company's high hopes, 1934 began with a major disaster. Woods, Non, Kalen and Sunnqvist had been entered for the Isle of Man TT races, but a chain snapped as the lorry carrying the TT machines was being hoisted on to a ship bound for England. The lorry turned upside down, and the priceless racing machines cascaded on to the quayside.
Damage was heavy, but after some concentrated overtime at the works some, at any rate, were repaired and made race-ready. As can be imagined, the Huskies were late arriving, and there was little enough time for practice. What is more, the troubles had only just started, for on one of the last practice mornings Stanley Woods hit a sheep and broke the frame of his 500cc.


STANLEY WOODS - 10 GLORIOUS TT WINS

For the race he would have to take over Sunnqvist's mount-because Sunnqvist had gone down with appendicitis and was unable to start. Nevertheless, Stanley put in the fastest lap of the Senior TT, and was holding the lead when he cast himself off at Ramsey Hairpin. He remounted, but ran out of fuel just eight miles from the finish-probably because he had spilled some in his fall.
Ernie Nott, meanwhile, had finished third in the Junior race, with a machine on which the carburation was audibly not correct.