Velocette KTT 350cc & Ted Mellors - winners 1936 Grand Prix of Belgium - photo

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A superb and rare photo of the magnificent Ted Mellors , photographed with his equally magnificent Velocette KTT 350cc Grand Prix factory racer just after
WINNING
the 350cc Grand Prix of Belgium. His winners laurels are still laying on the motorcycle. Mellors is seen standing in front of the Velo, holding the fuel hose. Norton works rider Harold Daniell can be seen second from right, with his back to the camera. His 350cc Norton works single can be seen in the background behind him. It was Mellors first season as a Velocette works rider.
Ted (Edward Ambrose) Mellors was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. He was an international motorcycle road racer who rode in the Manx Grand Prix in 1927 and the Isle of Man TT from 1928 to 1939. _He was the 350cc European Champion in 1938. Ted was one of five sons of wheelwright and a clergymans daughter. Two of his brothers drowned in a local canal as children. He wanted to be an International motorcycle racer and spent a lot of time riding in the Derbyshire hills. Ted met his future wife when he was still 15. She was 21, so he lied about his age. After 7 months they got married. In 1936, when Ted became a works rider for Velocette, they moved south to Shirley near Birmingham. They had two daughters Gladys and Joan. In 1927 Ted came 10th in the Manx Grand Prix on a P&M Panther; in 1930 he won the 250cc French Grand Prix 250 cc win followed in 1936 by a win in the 350cc class of the French Grand Prix. In 1937 Ted won the French Grand Prix 3 original! Please keep in mind though that this negative was made in the 1930s and it was taken with a camera from that era as well. Cameras and film did not have the quality as they have these days.
Velocette KTT 350 & Mellors - Grand Prix Belgium - 1936. had an unpublished fictionalised biography. In 1946 he unfortunately passed away.
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