Frank Longman

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Frank Augustus Longman (1893 or 1894 - June 14, 1933 in Ramsey , Isle of Man ) was a British motorcycle racer .

Career

Longman took part in 1921 in the 350 cm³ class for the first time in the Tourist Trophy on the Isle of Man. He finished 34th on a Wooler . In the following year he dropped out of the junior TT race, starting for AJS for the first time .

In 1923 Frank Longman won a race on the European mainland for the first time in a 350 cm³ AJS with the UMF Grand Prix held in France . The Brit won the Circuit de Touraine near Tours with an average speed of 56.4  mph . In the following year he was able to repeat this success. In 1925, the Briton celebrated his greatest success at the TT to date, finishing second behind Howard Davies in the senior race (500 cm³ class).

In 1926 Longman on AJS was third in the senior TT race behind Stanley Woods and Wal Handley . In mid-July, as part of the VI. The Belgian Grand Prix at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in the 1926 European Motorcycle Championship . Longman prevailed on AJS in the 350 race and was 350 European champion .

In 1927 Frank Longman fell out of both TT races in which he started. At the EM run of the season, which was part of the III. When the German Grand Prix was held on the newly built Nürburgring , he finished second in the 350cc race on Velocette behind AJS driver Jimmie Simpson . A short time later, he won the UMF Grand Prix for the third time in five years.

In 1928, Longman achieved the only Tourist Trophy victory of his career in the lightweight race (250 cm³ class) on OK Supreme . A little later he won in Northern Ireland discharged Ulster Grand Prix in the 350cc category.

In the 1929 season Frank Longman took third place in the lightweight TT run on OK-Supreme behind Syd Crabtree and Kenneth Twemlow . At the Ulster Grand Prix he celebrated his second victory in the quarter liter class. At the 1929 European Motorcycle Championship , which was held in L'Ametlla del Vallès , Spain , around 30 kilometers north of Barcelona , in October , he won his second European title in the 250cc class.

After 1929 Frank Longman was no longer able to appear internationally, and he was also often absent from the Tourist Trophy.

On June 14, 1933 Frank Longman crashed on an Excelsior in the race of the Lightweight TT at the section Glentramman of nearly 38 Miles long Snaefell Mountain Course on the Isle of Man at the age of 39 years fatal.

statistics

title

Isle of Man TT victories

year class machine Average speed
1936 Lightweight (250 cm³) OK supreme 62.9  mph (101.2  km / h )

References

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AJ Stevens & Company (1914) Limited - The early years. www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk, accessed on September 17, 2013 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Longman, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Longman, Frank Augustus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH 1893 or 1894
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1933
Place of death Ramsey , Isle of Man