1950 Tour of Britain

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1950 Brighton to Glasgow

Credit: pages of a programme for sale on eBay

Here is some new-to-the-web information about the 1950 precursor to the Tour of Britain - the Brighton to Glasgow stage race. With so many gaps any contributions of original material will be most welcome.

Partial Start List

France	Dayton Cycles	R O Harrison Cycles
Edmond Pierre	20 George Kessock	32 Len A Hook	Les J Scales	Ken Russell
Marcel Mouchette	21 Clive Parker	33 Ron Baker
	22 Dennis Talbot	34 James V Fletcher
	23 Ray Stevens	35 Jack Williams		Geoff W Wood
	24 Harry Burvill
	Frejus Cycles	Macken Cycles
Sammy Mehmed	25 Len D West	36 James Macken	Ron Loveday	Geoff Clark
	26 David Bedwell	37 Ken Rhodes
	27 George Lander	38 Reg Ashwin
	28 Leslie A Wade	39 Arthur Cook
	Gnutti Components
Jim Fletcher	29 Alec Taylor	John Storrie	Ron Morbey
	30 Karl Bloomfield
	31 Eric Charles Davis

Race Summary

Stage	Date	Route	1st	Time	2nd	3rd
1	6-Aug-1950	Brighton - London
2	7-Aug-1950	London - Weston-Super-Mare
3	8-Aug-1950	Weston-Super-Mare - Wolverhampton
4	9-Aug-1950	Wolverhampton - Nottingham TT (83 miles)	George Lander		Les Scales at 5m30
5	10-Aug-1950	Nottingham - Bradford
6	11-Aug-1950	Bradford - Newcastle upon Tyne	Ken Russell
7	12-Aug-1950	Newcastle upon Tyne - Glasgow

Final General Classification

Pos.

Rider

Time

1

George Lander

2

Ken Russell

at 11m55

3

4

5

6

Dave Bedwell

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Leslie A Wade

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1950 Brighton to Glasgow

Final General Classification Pos. Rider Time 1 George Lander 2 Ken Russell at 11m55 3 4 5 6 Dave Bedwell 7 8 9 Leslie A Wade 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33

Final General Classification

Pos.

Rider

Time

1

George Lander

2

Ken Russell

at 11m55

3

4

5

6

Dave Bedwell

7

8

9

Leslie A Wade

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

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19

20

21

22

23

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25

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