Noel Christmas
Record type: Motorsport Biographies
Biography: Mounts: Senior – Norton
Junior – A.J.S.
Like so many other good men, Christmas graduated to the T.T. via the Manx Grand Prix Races. He rode a Scott in the Senior “Manx” of 1933 and ’34 and a Velocette in the Junior “Manx” of the latter year, when he finished seventh.
Made his T.T. debut in 1935, when he finished eleventh on a Velocette in the Junior and ninth on a Vincent H.R.D. in the Senior.
Rode a Velocette in both Junior and Senior in 1939. Retired early on in the Junior, but finished twenty-fourth in the Senior and gained a second-class replica.
(TT Special, 9 June 1947, p.11.)
Sadly died, aged 39, competing in the 1948 Senior TT.
Competed in
| Race | Position | Time | Speed | Machine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 Senior TT | R | Norton | ||
| 1948 Junior TT | 42 | 3:57:57.00 | 66.6 | Norton |
| 1947 Senior TT | 7 | 3:23:03.20 | 78.04 | Norton |
| 1947 Junior TT | R | AJS | ||
| 1939 Senior TT | 24 | 3:28:23.00 | 76.05 | Velocette |
| 1939 Junior TT | R | Velocette | ||
| 1936 Junior TT | R | Velocette | ||
| 1935 Senior TT | 9 | 3:34:21.00 | 73.94 | Vincent HRD |
| 1935 Junior TT | 11 | 3:33:21.00 | 74.29 | Velocette |
| 1934 Senior MGP | R | Scott | ||
| 1934 Junior MGP | 7 | 3:12:28.00 | 70.59 | Velocette |
| 1933 Senior MGP | R | Scott |