Bill Hall

Record type: Motorsport Biographies

Biography: Junior - Velocette
Senior - Velocette

Age 30, William Hall is a motor engineer, of Liverpool. He rode in the 1947 “Manx” but crashed at Cruickshank’s Corner, Ramsey, and retired, luckily escaping with bruises. He rode the same Velocette in the 1948 Junior and Senior TT races, finishing forty-first in the Junior, but ran out of petrol in the Senior and retired. The following year, he rode a Velocette in the Junior TT and finished 69th, with a second-class replica. He gained a second-class replica in the 1950 Junior TT when he brought his Velocette into 38th place at a speed of 76.80 mph. He was forced to retire, however, in the last lap of the Senior.
(TT Special, 4 June 1951, p.13.)

Mounts: Junior – Velocette
Senior – Triumph

Age 29, William Hall is a motor engineer, of Liverpool. He rode in the 1947 “Manx” but crashed at Cruickshank’s Corner, Ramsey, and retired, luckily escaping with bruises. He rode the same Velocette in the 1948 Junior and Senior T.T. races, finishing forty-first in the Junior, but ran out of petrol in the Senior and retired. Last year, he rode a Velocette in the Junior T.T. and finished 69th, gaining a second-class replica.

His K.T.T. Velocette and G.P. Triumph have been prepared and tuned by Victor Horsman, of Liverpool, by whom he is entered for both races.
(TT Special, 5 June 1950, p.20.)

Age 28, motor engineer, of Liverpool. Rode in the 1947 "Manx", but crashed at Cruickshank's Corner, Ramsey, and retired, luckily escaping with bruises. Rode the same Velocette in last year's Junior and Senior T.T. races. Finished forty-first in the Junior, but ran out of petrol in the Senior and retired.
(TT Special, 13 June 1949)

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