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Denis MINETT - Brooklands Museum Collection
  • D. 1794 BMCRC Badge with Motorcycle Gold Star attached and 1937 date bar. D.C.Minett inscribed on reverse
     
  • l.423 Denis Minett's Leathers helmet and boots, worn at Brooklands.
     
  • Cup. BMCRC 1937 Senior Mountain Championship. 3rd D.C.Minett
     
  • Cup. BMCRC 1938 F.L.Beart (Driver D.Minett) Presented by Sir Algernon Guinness. Bart.
     
  • Tankard. BMCRC . D.C.Minett. Class Outer Circuit Record 2.4.38
     
  • Tankard. D.C.Minett. BMCRC. ClassD Mountain Circuit Record. 25.6.38
     
  • Cuttings book.
     
  • Torn buff envelope addressed to 'Mr Minett, Melbourne' comprising:
    Auto-Cycle Union Competition Licence for Denis Charles Minett dated 16.4.37 together with receipt for 5/- dated 20.5.53 and Auto-Cycle Council of Australia Licence for a Driver No V990 valid up to 30.6.53; 
     
  • Pages 40-47 of a booklet about Francis Beart, with a picture of Denis Minett on page 40; 
     
  • Page of 'The Motor Cycle' dated 21.4.38 advertising that Denis Minett will be riding a Norton on 2.4.(38);  
     
  • Handwritten notes on envelope entitled 'Brooklands - Gold Star by Denis Minett; 
     
  • BMCRC certificate membership no. 73 for D C Minett; 
     
  • Pages nos. 327-330 and 347-350 torn from 'Motor Cycling' dated 11.7.57 and pages 435-438 from 'Motor Cycling' dated 1.8.57; 
     
  • Correspondence comprising Norton Motors congratulatory letter of 28.3.39 to Denis Minett; 
     
  • Letter from Roland R Free dated 8.10.50; 
     
  • 2 pages of foolscap notes on D Minett; 
     
  • 6 pages of typewritten notes written by Denis Minett from address in Australia.
     
  • All the following are b/w photos (varying in size) and all F683:

    Denis Minett Record Attempt, 1938

    Denis Minett on Francis Beart's Norton - March 4th 1938

    Denis Minett (on reverse - H G T S 1932 Series?? TT Rudge)

    Denis Minett with Beart's Norton - 4.3.1938 (See March 9/1938 issue M/C) 1st - (On reverse: 3 Lap Gold Star Scratch Race. Standing lap record 100.01. Win at 108.98 average. This photo is the property of Denis Minett and must be returned to R P Reed, 'Rose Villa', Tootals Road, Springvale, Vic, Aust). Crowd of onlookers around motorcycle - also with rider and mechanics On the starting line of motorcycle race with motorcycles and riders.

    Denis Minett - GP - Triumph, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. (On reverse: 'I was also in this race') (On front: G P Triumph, Ballarat. 6.4.53.)

    2 no. b/w postcards of Mountain Circuit noticeboard with D C Minett's name up showing the date 25.6.38 on each

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