At one stage members of the club, engaged in the stunts, staged a walkout in order to gain a better financial deal. Harold Rowell ended up performing more of the rider scenes than any other member of the Peveril Motorcycle and Light Car Club. Jack Cannell also featured as a stunt rider wearing bib number 15. Members of the Peveril Motor Cycle Club also carried out some of the stunts, including Cyril Standen who crashed into the front-door of the Ballacraine Hotel and the crash into the river at Sulby. They were paid £75 per day for their appearances. Stunts: Many of the racing scenes in the film were performed by motorcycling riders from the Isle of Man such as brothers Bertie and Harold Rowell. Other bikes that were used include a 350cc Ariel that had been flown to the Isle of Man, partly dismantled, in a de Havilland Dragon Rapide. For example, Formby rode for the “Rainbow Motorcycle Company” on a 1928 AJS H5 that had been modified and ‘streamlined’ by his character to become the Shuttleworth Snap. An early George Formby film and probably his best.īikes: Real motorcycle manufacturers are not referenced in the film, and instead contemporary motorcycles were customized and given fictitious names.

As the big race approaches, George soon realises that other jealous riders will stop at nothing to make sure he does not take part in the race. As a result, he breaks the TT lap record, becoming an instant motor-cycling star. During the trials, the brakes go on George’s bike, ‘The Shuttleworth Snap’, which he made himself. George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think.

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