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Roy Ingram

Record type: Motorsport Biographies

Biography: Age 29, Roy Ingram is a motor cycle mechanic and comes from Rode, near Bath, He rode in the 1952 Senior Clubman's TT finishing 38th and next year he was 13th in the Junior Clubman's.

Turning "international" in 1954, he was 19th in the Senior TT, but he was unlucky in the same races of 1955 and '56, retiring in both of them. He did not compete in the Island in 1957, but was back in the Senior again last year - only to retire on the last lap.

His Norton for the Senior race is a 1959 model with Peel streamlining, and he Is entered by J. Difazio Motorcycles of Frome.
(TT Special, 8 June 1959, p.22)

Mount: Senior—Norton

Age 24, Roy Ingram is a mechanic—tractor driver on a farm, and comes from Rode, near Bath. No stranger to the Island, Roy competed in the 1952 and ’53 Clubman’s races, and finished both times—38th, on a Matchless, in the 1952 Senior and 13th on a Norton in last year’s Junior.

He has competed in Clubman’s races at Thruxton, Blandford, Castle Combe and Brand’s Hatch, using a G9 Matchless twin, and he makes his debut as an “International” this year.

The mount he rides is a standard “Featherbed”, but embellished with shrouded steering head and rear wheel panels, these mods, being produced by Colour Developments, of Bradford-on-Avon, to a design by Wilf Sleightholme. Roy is entered for this year’s Senior by F. Sleightholme and Sons, of Trowbridge.
(TT Special, 16 June 1954, p.18.)

Competed in

RacePositionTimeSpeedMachine
1965 Senior TTRNorton
1965 Junior TTRNorton
1964 Senior TTRNorton
1964 Junior TTRNorton
1963 Junior TTRNorton
1962 Senior TT52:22:20.8095.44Norton
1962 Junior TT42:23:48.8094.46Norton
1961 Senior TT72:20:20.2096.8Norton
1961 Junior TT62:26:07.0092.97Norton
1960 Senior TT122:24:53.6093.75Norton
1960 Junior TT162:31:24.0089.72Norton
1959 Senior TTRNorton
1959 Formula 1 500 TT81:13:27.8092.46Norton
1958 Senior TTRNorton
1956 Senior TTRBSA
1955 Senior TTRNorton
1954 Senior TT191:54:55.6078.8Norton
1953 Clubman Junior TT131:56:53.2077.53Norton
1952 Clubman Senior TT382:04:41.0072.63Matchless

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