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Pit Straight, 1964

Start of ATT, with Frank Gardner's Alec Mildren owned Lotus 23 Ford leading from Bib Stillwell's Cooper Monaco, Frank Matich in the Total owned Lotus 19B Climax and Bob Jane's Jaguar E-type.

Airborne, 1959 AGP

Tannery Road – Stan Jones’ Maserati 250F leading Len Lukey’s Cooper Climax over the railway crossing.

Railway Viaduct, 1959 AGP qualifying race

Arnold Glass in his Maserati 250F with Bill Patterson in a Cooper Climax behind him. The third car could be Tom Hawkes driving Ted Gray's Tornado - Gray was sick that day and Hawkes drove the car. Gray drove in the AGP on the Monday.

Country Club Hotel corner, 1959 AGP

Stan Jones on the way to winning the 1959 AGP in the Maserati 250F. Note the track safety features: hay bales and wire netting fence. It was the last AGP to be won by a front engined car.

Long Bridge, 1968

Graham Hill's Lotus 49 Ford Cosworth leading Jim Clark's Lotus 49 Ford Cosworth, Amon Ferrari's Dino 246T, Frank Gardner's Brabham Alfa BT23D, Leo Geoghegan's Lotus 39 Repco, Richard Attwood's BRM P126, Kevin Bartlett's Brabham BT11A Climax and Pedro Rodriguez's BRM P126. For the NZ races in the Tasman Series that year, Lotus used their traditional green and yellow paintwork. For the four Australian races they were sponsored by Gold Leaf, and became known as Gold Leaf Team Lotus. Jim Clark died in a crash at Hokenheim, Germany 5 weeks after the final race at Longford.

Pedro Rodriguez, BRM V12 March 2nd 1968.

Chris Amon Ferrari 330P4, into the Viaduct, March 2nd, 1968.

Len(Cooper-Climax), Stan and Arnold Glass(both Maserati 250F's) , pub corner, 1959 AGP. (copyright)

Bikes into Newry. Eric Hinton leads Tom Phillis, both riding Nortons, 1960

credit: OLD BIKE PHOTOS

Unlimited bikes start 1961

photo courtesy of The Examiner

crowd on pub corner 1960 or 1964

Photographed by Reg Dalwood

1967 grid shows Jack Brabham, Denny Hulme both in Repco Brabhams, Jim Clark front row in a Lotus Climax V8, Jackie Stewart in BRM P261 V8 and Spencer Martin in Brabham Climax second row.

Sir Jackie Stewart and Premier Eric Reece shortly after Jackie had won the Tasman Cup, 1966

Alec Corner (rider) , Gerry O'Brien (passenger) on the Vincent lead Ray Kelly (rider) (passenger unknown) on a Norton.

Credit: OLD BIKE Australia.

1930 Viaduct

Credit: Tasmanian Farmers Magazine

1958 Doug Whiteford Maserati 300S, leads Len Lukey Cooper Bristol Viaduct.

Jackie Stewart, BRM P261 V8, 1966.

Track visit write up. showing Amon's 330P4 Ferrari at Pub Corner, March 2nd, 1968.

credit: Old Race photos.

Gorringe Bridge, 1965.

credit: the Middleton Family.

Geoff Duke riding Gilera 500/4 and Max Stephens Norton 1955

Credit: Bob Young.

Chris Amon's Ferrari 330P4, 1968.

Credit: D. Cooper.