The Classic MotorCycle

Picture of speed

Crowds line the outside of the bend, with no safety barrier in sight, as William Aubrey ‘Wag’ Gwillan streaks through, still banked over on his Velocette KTT, to take the chequered flag, thus winning the Port Elizabeth 200, a handicap race run on New Year’s Day, 1951, on the WM Gray Circuit.

Gwillam led home a 350cc Velocette podium clean sweep, with Doug Sutherland runner-up, then Billy Kay third. It was

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