Joe Wright was a British racing motorcyclist who achieved fame in the 1920s and 1930s as a rider of Brough Superior motorcycles. He held the lap record at Brooklands from 1925 until 1935. ... Wright retired from motorcycle racing in 1933 but remained involved in the industry as a dealer and tuner. He passed away in 1985 at the age of 85. Joe ...

Jun 4, 2018 · A compelling shot of Joe Wright on the Arpajon straight on the OEC, with Claude Temple adjusting the machine he’d developed and tuned for land speed racing. Temple had himself held the World Land Speed Record in 1923 (108.48mph), aboard the Temple-Anzani double-overhead camshaft V-twin he’d developed, which was sadly destroyed in the ...

Gaston Durand, the manufacturer, was talented racer who registered 44 patents between 1925 and 1953. Pierton of Paris. Murder and Mayhem In May 1998 three rare classic racing motorcycles were stolen, an AJS 7R, a Matchless G45 and a G50. ... Joe Wright later raised the motorcycle speed record to 150.736 mph using his supercharged Zenith-JAP ...

Joseph 'Joe' S. Wright - Motorcycle racer.. 1926 "IT is claimed that a world's record was made by Mr. J. S. Wright, at Brooklands, on the 10th inst., when he rode a twin-cylinder Zenith J.A.P. motor cycle at a speed of 113.45 miles per hour.". Wright held …

Joe Wright was a British racing motorcyclist who achieved fame in the 1920s and 1930s as a rider of Brough Superior motorcycles. He held the lap record at Brooklands from 1925 until 1935. ... E.C.E. Barry Baragwanath was a British motorcycle racer who gained fame in the 1920s and 1930s for his exploits on the racetrack. Read more.

Jun 30, 2018 · Joe Wright aboard the OEC-Temple-JAP on the Arpajon straight outside Montlhéry in 1930 [Francois-Marie Dumas / Moto-Collection.org] Claude Temple was a race tuner and record holder using British Anzani engines in his own chassis, and later on OEC (Osborn Engineering Company) machines using JAP motors in the 1920s. Temple was the first rider to ...

Sep 12, 2017 · Joe Wright had already taken the Motorcycle Land Speed Record with the OEC, back on August 31st at Arpajon, France, at 137.32mph, but Henne and his BMW had the cheek to snatch the Record by a mere .3mph, on Septermber 20th. ... 1938 was a big year for global motorcycle racing, as Ewald Kluge won the Lightweight Isle of Man TT on his ...

In 1930 Joe Wright took the world speed record over 150mph (240 km/h), but the name of the company was blackened when it transpired that the machine used was not, in fact, an OEC but a Zenith. The machine is pictured at the Montlhery track, prior to the speed run at Arpajon. ... The Museum has the largest racing motorcycle collection in Europe ...

Joe Wright was ready with another vehicle powered by the fantastic JAP 1000 two-cylinder V, longitudinal, engine. In November, 1930, he drove the motorcycle at Cork, Ireland, where he raised the world record to 150.70 m.p.h. BMW got ready to retaliate by spending two years studying aerodynamics and improving its engine.

Wright posed astride the amazing looking OEC Temple JAP racing motorcycle. This is the bike on which broke the motorcycle land speed record in 1930 at 150.73mph on the Carrigrohane straight on the outskirts of Cork in Ireland. The bike was built by Claude Temple who had himself already broken the speed record for motorcycles in the late 1920s .