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Stanley Woods

Reference code
HOYFM.ACL2023.53
Level of description
Fonds
Title
Stanley Woods
Scope and content
Stanley Woods was an Irish motorcycle racer competing in the 1920s/30s whose successes include ten wins at the Isle of Man TT. Contains loose photographs, b/w and colour; loose and bound volumes of journal articles and news clippings; invites to the opening of Stanley Woods Collection at Cultra, 1987 and correspondence seeking funding for collection; transcripts of tape interviews between Stanley Woods and Eric McCleery, typescript My Motorcycle Life by Stanley Woods with annotations.
Bound photo albums; book marked Ledger 1/4/30, with handwritten notes by Woods comprising his autobiography, book, An Outline of Suzuki Motor Co Ltd; motorcycle parts catalogue addressed to Stanley Woods, various motorcycle magazines; calendars; correspondence addressed to Woods; W.E. Wassell Ltd catalogue stamped F. Boles Belfast; framed p/w race photographs including Mountain Gate T.T., 1926; obituaries photocopied from Belfast Telegraph.
One scrapbook of photos marked Stanley Woods Trophies.
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