Canon 'Demi' camera
Date made: 1963
Maker: Canon
Description: Canon 'Demi' silver coloured camera with black leatherette patches. Serial number 662341. In black leather carrying case.
Camera given to Mrs K.Carran at the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races by Naomi Taniguchi (Honda rider). Mrs Carran was Japanese by birth and came to the Isle of Man in 1952 after marrying a Manx serviceman stationed in Japan. In 1959 she became friendly with the first Honda team to arrive on the Island.
She took rice cakes and other Japanese food to them at the Nursery Hotel in Onchan as much of the food they had brought with them had spoiled.
Taniguchi competed from 1959 to 1964. This camera was not marketed before 1963 which dates the gift quite closely.
Materials: copper alloy, iron, metal: other, plastic: other, glass
Object name: camera
Collection: Social History Collection
ID Number: 2009-0034
Comments
Linked Records
Archives:
- 1959 TT (Tourist Trophy) Honda team poses with two of its racing machines behind the Grandstand
- Display of items and Tourist Trophy replicas belonging to Naomi Tanaguchi
- Mass start at the Grandstand of 1959 Ultra Lightweight TT
- Onchan main street, part of Clypse Course in 1959
- 1959 Honda team, Tanaka, G. Suzuki, Taniguchi and J. Suzuki
- Naomi Taniguchi practising on the Clypse Course, 1959 TT (Tourist Trophy)
- Honda team posing outside of the Nursery hotel, Onchan at the end of the 1959 TT (Tourist Trophy)
- Naomi Taniguchi pushing his Honda (machine number 8) out from the paddock, 1959 TT (Tourist Trophy)
- Honda riders at the weigh in at the Grandstand, 1959 TT (Tourist Trophy)
- Naomi Taniguchi aboard a Honda Benley on the Clypse Course, practising for the 1959 TT (Tourist Trophy)
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