Frith demonstrating a 1930s Manx Norton at the Vintage Motor Cycle Club's Founder's Day rally, race meeting and parade gathering, 27 April 1969 at Mallory Park
Nationality
British
Born
Frederick Lee Frith (1909-05-30)May 30, 1909
Died
May 24, 1988(1988-05-24) (aged 79) Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Active years
1949
First race
1949 350cc Isle of Man TT
Last race
1949 350cc Ulster Grand Prix
First win
1949 350cc Isle of Man TT
Last win
1949 350cc Ulster Grand Prix
Team(s)
Velocette
Championships
350cc - 1949
Starts
Wins
Podiums
Poles
F. laps
Points
6
5
5
0
4
38
Frederick Lee Frith OBE (30 May 1909 – 24 May 1988 Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England)[1][2] was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion.[3] A former stonemason and later a motor cycle retailer in Grimsby,[4] he was a stylish rider and five times winner of the Isle of Man TT. Frith was one of the few to win TT races before and after the Second World War.[5] He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1950 Birthday Honours.[6]
^England and Wales births Retrieved 17 June 2015
^England and Wales deaths Retrieved 17 June 2015
^"Freddie Frith career statistics at MotoGP.com". Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2009.
^Motorcycle Sport, UK monthly magazine, August 1978, p.296 Freddie Frith Limited, official advert. The latest and greatest shaft drive motorcycles from Honda & BMW. 119 Victoria Street Grimsby. Accessed 17 June 2015
^Keig, Stanley Robertson (1975). The Keig Collection: six hundred photographs from the Manx House of Keig of T.T. riders and their machines from 1911 to 1939, vol 1. Bruce Main-Smith & Co.pp.28-29 ISBN 0-904365-05-0
^British Empire: "No. 38929". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1950. p. 2787.
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win the Senior, and come fifth in the Junior. The Junior was won by FreddieFrith in his first year on the Norton team, and the Lightweight was won by...
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