OUT IN THE SHED
Omodei Shield 1939
Recently a damaged but very worthy trophy arrived at the National Motorcycle Museum, Nabiac. The engraved plate reads “Omodei Shield Trial November, 1939. Won By AJS & Velocette A. D. Dixon, N. Loader, M., Tarrant, T. Redway.” It was well before my time and seeing as it had the make Velocette on it I thought that there is only one place to go to find the answers; Dennis Quinlan – who else? Within no time he had emailed me the details of the event.
It was the fourth Annual Omodei Shield Inter-Club Reliability Trial. Other clubs participating were the Ariel, Hornsby, Mascot, Parramatta, Waverley, Western Suburbs, Arncliffe-Bexley, Bankstown, Bondi, Central and Fairfield Motor Cycle Clubs. Those 12 clubs had 72 competitors, 51 came…
