Bill Beevers

Record type: Motorsport Biographies

Biography: Age 43, occupation, motor-cycle agent; home town, Sheffield. Bill Beevers is an old hand on the T.T. course, having won no fewer than nine replicas. Finished second in the 1936 Ulster Grand Prix and second in the North-West "200" of the same year. He has also gained awards in the Dutch, Italian and Swiss T.T.s. In 1947 he rode a Norton in the Junior and Senior T.T., gaining replicas in both, second-class in the Junior and first-class in the Senior, where he finished eighth at 77.56 m.p.h.

Last year he rode a Velocette in the Junior, finishing twenty-fourth, but in the senior, on a Norton, he retired on the fourth lap.

He is entered by Gordon Tools Ltd., of Sheffield, for both races. (TT Special, 13 June 1949, p.16)

Mounts: Junior – Norton
Senior – Norton

Age 41, occupation Motor Cycle Agent, home town Sheffield. Had 5 ½ years in the Forces, which he tabulates succinctly as “Sir Malcom Campbell’s Unit, Commandos, R.E.M.E.

Is an old hand on the T.T. course, having won seven replicas, the 1936 Ulster and 2nd again in the North West 200 of the same year. He has also gained awards in the Dutch, Italian and Swiss T.T’s

Gorden Tools Ltd. are his entrants in the Junior, and his Senior entry is a private one. Both machines are 1947 models.
(TT Special, 9 June 1947, p.10.)

Mounts: Junior – Velocette
Senior – Norton

Age 44, a motor cycle agent, of Sheffield, Bill Beevers, is one of todays “veterans of the Isle of Man”, his first T.T. having been in 1935. Since then, he tells us, he has won no fewer than twelve replicas.

Way back in 1936 he was second in the Ulster Grand Prix and second in the North West “200” of the same year. He has also gained awards in the Belgian, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Swiss Grand Prix races.

Last year he won a second-class replica in the Junior T.T. on a Velocette and in the Senior on a Norton finished 16th, at 80.4 m.p.h. gaining a first-class replica. He figured in a spectacular crash in the last big race of 1949 – the “Brocklands” 100 miles race at Silverstone, but after a day or so in hospital was soon up and about again.

He is entered by Gordon Tools of Sheffield, for both races.
(TT Special, 5 June 1950, p.17.)

Junior - Norton
Senior - Norton

Age 46, T.T. veteran, Bill Beevers has been racing the island course since 1935, and has 15 replicas to show for it. A motor cycle agent from Sheffield, Bill won one of his bronze replicas in last year’s Junior event. He retired from the Lightweight and was disqualified in the Senior for using an engine under minimum capacity.

Going back to 1936, Bill was second in the Ulster Grand Prix and second in the North-West “200” of the same year. He also won awards in the Belgian, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Swiss Grand Prix races. Moving onto 1949 – Bill won a second-class replica in the Junior T.T. and then collected a first-class in the Senior, finishing 16th at 80.4 m.p.h. In the last big race of the year – the “Brooklands” 100 mile race at Silverstone – he was in the news again, and unwelcome news it was, for he was involved in a spectacular crash – but he made fast time in his recovery too!

In 1950 he was 41st in the Junior T.T. at a speed of 76.44 m.p.h. and 23rd in the Senior at 81.22 m.p.h. – second class replica for each.
(TT Special, 9 June 1952, p.7.)

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