BATHURST (NSW)
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BATHURST MOUNT PANORAMA 1934 > 1940
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1934 - BALD HILLS
(Editorial 75 years Mount Panorama)
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1934 - MOUNT PANORAMA AUSTRALIAN TOURIST TROPHY RACES 31st March 1934 |
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1938 - MOUNT PANORAMA AUSTRALIAN 150th CELEBRATIONS TT 16th April 1938Mount Panorama Street Circuit opened to the paying public on the 16th of April 1938 with the running of the Australian TT for motorcycles, followed two days later by the Australian Grand Prix for cars, the original gravel road circuit of 3.861 miles or 6.213 km was entirely run on public roads just outside the town of Bathurst.
By the running of the second meeting on the eighth and nineth of April 1939 the gravel surface had been bitumised.
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1938 - WESTERN ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER REPORTED
(Editorial 75 years Mount Panorama)
1938 - Harry Hinton on his Norton down through the esses. Photo: David Keith Lewis.
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(Editorial 75 years Mount Panorama)
Full Throttle Publishing Photo feature
1938 - Pit Straight looking towards the left handed Hell Corner. Photo: Tony Loxley collection.
Old Motor Racing Photographs - Australia facebook feature
1938 - starters in the Australian Grand Prix. Photo: John Blanden collection.
Old Australian Photos facebook pictorial feature
1938 - Photo: Dan Willis.
1938 - FJ Foss from New South Wales in his Ford V8 Special at Forrest Elbow. Photo: Dan Wills collection.
1938 - The crowds decended on the mountain for this great race. Photo: Dan Willis.
1938 - Australian Grand Prix lineup at Mount Panorama. Photo: Dan Willis.
Old Motor Racing Photographs - Australia facebook photo feature
1938 - Down the mountain. Photo: Bob Williamson collection.
1938 - PETER WHITEHEAD (England)
1938 - Peter Whitehead from England won the 1938 Australian Grand Prix. Photo: Dan Willis.
1938 - Peter Whitehead leading down the main straight (later conrod straight) in his ERA R10B. Photo: Doug Grant collection.
1938 - Australian Grand Prix winner Peter Whitehead on the dirt roads of the Bathurst course, no seat belts and no helmet. Photo: unknown.
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1939 - MOUNT PANORAMA NEW SOUTH WALES GRAND PRIX 10th April 1939Mount Panorama hosted the New South Wales Grand Prix over the Easter long weekend on the Monday.
A note-able at the meeting was the re-naming of the main straight to Conrod Straight after Frank Kleinig's Hudson threw a rod out of the engine on the main straight.
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1939 - The event winner J O Sherwood in his number 18 MG NE rounding Murrays Corner. Photo: unknown.
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1988 - MOUNT PANORAMA BOOKLET
1988 - PAST & FUTURE AS REPORTED IN BOOKLET
(Editorial Fred Smith - Photos Fred Smith and George Reed)
