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Gerry Saward

Record type: Motorsport Biographies

Biography: Age 27, Gerald Saward is a pattern cutter and comes from Croydon, Surrey. He has had over five years' racing experience at Aintree, Brands Hatch, Kirkby Mallory, Snetterton, etc. and has more than once been placed within the first half-dozen. In the 1958 350 c.c. Snaefell race he was 24th on a Norton at 76.81 m.p.h. and on the same machine he was 33rd in the Senior Manx Grand Prix. He was 28th in the Junior Manx in 1959, winning a replica—and he was 28th again in the same race last year with another " Rep." His machine is a standard 1959 Manx Norton.
(TT Special, 7 September 1961, p.12).

Junior – Norton
Senior – Norton*
Age 26, Gerald Saward is a pattern cutter and comes from Croydon, Surrey. He has had over four years’ racing experience of Aintree, Brands Hatch, Kirkby Mallory, Snetterton, etc. and has more than once been placed within the first half-dozen. In the 1958 350 c.c. Snaefell race he was 24th on a Norton at 76.81 m.p.h. and on the same machine he was 33rd in the Senior Manx Grand Prix. He was 28th in the Junior last year, winning a replica.

His machine is a standard 1959 Manx Norton.
(TT Special, 8 September 1960, p.13.)

Competed in

RacePositionTimeSpeedMachine
1964 Senior TTRNorton
1964 Junior TT262:35:31.2087.35AJS
1963 Junior TT142:45:16.2082.2Norton
1962 Junior TT332:40:54.0084.43Norton
1961 Junior MGPRNorton
1960 Senior MGPR0Norton
1960 Junior MGP282:43:34.0083.05Norton
1959 Junior MGP282:43:00.0083.34AJS
1958 Senior MGP332:47:02.0081.33Norton
1958 Junior Snaefell MGP241:57:54.0076.81Norton

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