Alan Horne
Record type: Motorsport Biographies
Biography: Mounts: Junior – Norton
Lightweight – Rudge
Home town, Perth. Occupation, Motor Cycle Agent. During the War used his machine shop for the manufacture of aircraft components for Vickers Armstrong Ltd.
Has twice ridden in the M.G.P. Lightweight class, in 1938 and 1946 but had bad luck on each occasion and did not finish.
His Junior mount is Tommy McEwan’s “Manx” Norton. In the Lightweight he rides a 250 c.c. 2-valve Rudge built by himself after the specification of Roland Pike’s 1939 T.T. job, but using light alloys wherever possible.
(TT Special, 9 June 1947, p.15.)
Competed in
| Race | Position | Time | Speed | Machine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 Lightweight TT | R | Rudge | ||
| 1949 Lightweight TT | R | Rudge | ||
| 1949 Junior TT | 64 | 3:40:15.00 | 71.96 | AJS |
| 1948 Lightweight TT | R | Rudge | ||
| 1947 Lightweight TT | R | Rudge | ||
| 1947 Junior TT | 20 | 3:42:44.00 | 71.15 | Norton |
| 1946 Lightweight MGP | R | Rudge | ||
| 1938 Lightweight MGP | R | OK Supreme |