Newsletter No 29 - VMCC - Isle of Man

Yellow Belly Notes
The Eagle Has Landed
In Raymond Ainscoe’s latest publication ‘The Murrays Museum T.T. Archive’,
there are some evocative pictures of one of the most sensational
motor cycles ever produced; the amazing Moto Guzzi V8 racer. That marque
has been linked with the Isle of Man since 1926, with a roll call of riders
from the British Isles, which reads like a ‘dream team. Add to that the names
of the Italian riders and not forgetting the ‘colonial’ racers, and the factory
by the lake in northern Italy has had a long and successful association with
the T.T.
In 1937 the dashing Omobono
Tenni won the lightweight T.T.
and the journalists at the time
were excited by his brave style.
One commentator said “ Tenni
corners with mad abandon”
That victory and the Isle of
Man itself meant so much to
him that his son was christened
Titino. Pic 1. Part of your Lincolnshire
correspondent’s col-
Pic. 1
lection of stylish Omobono
Tenni T - shirts.
The marque was born out of a
meeting of aviators in the new
Italian Air Force during the
first world war; Carlo Guzzi,
Giorgio Pic 1 Parodi and Giovanni
Pic 1
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