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Piero Taruffi, Werner Hass, Freddie Frith, and other
Piero Taruffi, Werner Hass, Freddie Frith, and other
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Piero Taruffi, Werner Hass, Freddie Frith, and other motorcycle racing autographs, including World Champions Eric Oliver, Enrico Lorenzetti, Cecil Sandford, Fergus Anderson, also Otto Daiker, Stan Dibben, Rod Coleman, plus Ken Mudford, all obtained on two autograph book pages under the heading 'Ulster Grand Prix, Dundrod, 1953', the dedicated signature of Freddie Frith beneath a printed portrait after I.Spencer Edge, 28 by 20cm., with 5 photocopied pages concerning him and the Clady circuit in Ulster; together with two Isle of Man T.T. First Day postal covers franked Douglas, dated 1 June 1982 and 28 May 1975, and a Steve Hislop signed Joey Dunlop 'King of the Mountain' retrospective First Day postal cover dated 17.05.01 (10) Freddie Frith became the first man to lap the Isle of Man at over 90mph, whilst winning the 1937 Senior T.T. on a Norton. And he continued to be both a T.T. winner and legend until the end of the 1940s. Piero Taruffi was in Ulster in 1953 as the Gilera team manager, a marque that had first come to prominence in 1937 when he set a World Speed Record of 170.5mph on a fully enclosed four-cylinder machine. Yet he continued to race on four wheels and won the 1952 F1 Swiss Grand Prix in a Ferrari.
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Piero Taruffi, Werner Hass, Freddie Frith, and other

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