• Title
  Hood Collection part II : [Sports, Cycling and motorcycles, both racing and recreational]
• Creator
  Sam Hood, 1872-1953
• Call number
  PXE 789 (v.43)
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1925-ca. 1940
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  153705
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : 35 images only selected for digitisation
  
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 48 photoprints - 16 x 28 cm. or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  Cycling
  1. [Unidentified NSW team cyclist]
  2-3. [Hubert Opperman, dressing gown over his cycling gear, enters Sydney Town Hall, with his wife Mavys and Bruce Small, his manager and owner of Malvern Star]
  4. [Cycling race on dirt road (unable to read caption on the back)]
  5. [Five young cyclists with their bikes]
  6-8. [Hubert Opperman eating an ice cream next to a Peter's Ice Cream Reo truck, 1936]
  9. [Hubert Opperman in action]
  10. [Oppy and woman, possibly Edna Sayers, on tandem bicycle for two]
  11. [Four cyclists on speed bicycles on rollers time trials to promote Malvern Star: from left, Lennie Rogers, Bill Moritz, .. ?, .. ?]
  12. [Men in cloth caps holding papers around a cyclist]
  13. [Tandem for two in a road race]
  14-16. [Cyclists camp during a road race, possibly the 6 day race, Moore Park; No. 15 (L to R) Hex Maxwell, Vic Brown, Tom Carey, H. Opperman]
  17-18. [Feeding station at Moss Vale during a Dunlop Goulburn-Sydney road race (no.18 shows Dunlop tyres entrant)]
  19. [Entrant in a road race]
  20. [William Read & George Jones completed a tandem record between Fremantle-Sydney in 22 days 17 hrs]
  21. [Cyclist in road race with spectators behind barriers, Goulburn-Sydney Dunlop road race, Joseph St, Lidcombe]
  22. [Studio photograph of cyclist with Austral BSA on his jersey]
  23. [Finish, Goulburn-Sydney Dunlop road race, Joseph St, Lidcombe]
  24. J. Confoy, winner of professional division, Dunlop Road Race, 25 September 1937
  25. [Man and woman on a Malvern Star abreast tandem bicycle]
  26. [Woman cyclist Billie Samuels or Joyce Barry ?]
  27. [Royal Australian Cycling Club group]
  28. [Studio photograph of cyclist on his bike with two water bottles]
  29. [Winner of road race congratulated at the line]
  30-31. [Hubert Opperman in Malvern Star jersey, with his wife Mavys (left) and Bruce Small, Oppy's manager and owner of Malvern Star (right) speaks into a microphone in front of crowd]
  32. [Boys of Hoyts Clovelly Theatre "Spider's Web" Club ride their bikes while "Spiderman" looks on]
  33. [Cyclists rest and tune bike in camp during road race]
  34. E. Milliken of Victoria wins [Dunlop Road Race, Wallace Ave, Strathfield]
  35. [Two cyclists]
  36. [Mainly country boys in] Malvern Star Junior Championship 15 Mile Road Race, Parramatta Park [i.e. Pool of Remembrance, Hyde Park (?)], 20 August 1936
  37-40. [Cycle races, including a six days race, at purpose-built velodrome, Moore Park no. 37]
  Motorcycling
  41. Wally Little riding for Empire Speedways
  42. [Signed postcard of motorcycle racer Morian Hansen on his bike]
  43-46. [Speedway motorcycle racing, Sydney Showground]
  47. [Sidecar race], Penrith speedway Easter Monday morning, 29 March 1937
  48. [Congratulating a motorcycle racer]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Information on nos 10-11,14-16,17-18,20-21,23,26,34,37 supplied by D. Edworthy (Feb 2007)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823958
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Chiefly untitled, a few with captions
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  PXE 789/v.43/1 may be Ron Cazey on his Blackbird bicycle, built by Don Blackman,
  in Ashfield, N.S.W. ( www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/ ?irn=362418 )
  It seems to have a B.S.A. chainwheel, as did most Australian handbuilt racing cycles of that period?
  
  Reference:
  Information supplied by "Abaraphobia" on the State Library of New South Wales Flickr photostream, July 2012
• Name
  Barry, Joyce
  Confoy, J.
  Dunlop Road Race
  Empire Speedways Ltd.
  Hansen, Morian
  Hoyts Theatres.
  Little, Wally
  Malvern Star (brand name)
  Milliken, Ernest
  Moritz, Bill
  Opperman, H. F. (Hubert), 1904-1996
  Opperman, Mavys
  Rogers, Lennie
  Sayers, Edna
  Small, Bruce
  Spiderman (fictitious character)
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  Spectators.
  
• Topic
  interiors
  bicycle races
  bicycles
  BSA (bicycles)
  cycling
  cyclists
  Malvern Star (bicycles)
  motorcycle racing
  motorcycles
  motorcyclists
  publicity
  Reo (trucks)
  tandems
  velodromes
  
• Place
  Clovelly (N.S.W.)
  Joseph Street (Lidcombe, N.S.W.)
  Moore Park (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Parramatta Park (N.S.W.)
  Penrith (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Showground (N.S.W.)
  Wallace Avenue (Strathfield, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1016461

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