Arthur Williams is to blame for digging up data for this page!, 'worth it though!, I shall gradually build the tale of the event in with anecdotes & info.  Here at Sweden, the 41st event was to unfold August 39 to Sept 4th inc.    22 Teams of 4 in the Vase events from 13 countries, plus 36 x 3 rider manufacturer Teams.   Brit Trophy Team had 5 on Triumphs & one on BSA.    Veteran Frank Carey could not start his 125 Suzuki in the permitted hour & became a non Starter.   11 Special Tests awaited competitors 149 of 287 starters obtained Gold Medals, of 58 others, 34 took Silver, the rest Bronze..   Karlskaga to Orebro Artillery Training Ground was being largely used & 2nd day had 90 miles south of Villingsberg to cover. 22 retired on Day ONE!.   East Germany took the Trophy & West Germany the Silver Vase.

This Badge & above poster gently stored & unearthed by Brian Catt for us, many thanks Brian.

Pat Slinn's beloved BSA, he would love to get it back or at least find where it is, DVLA know where the number is registered from now, however cannot tell Pat, so please CAN ANYONE LET US KNOW???

Brian Catt came up with info which wd escape a great many of us, at least it is now recorded here.  BSA & Triumph's joint efforts were shown at a pre ISDT meeting Triumphs wore BSA Victor forks, Triumph frames & motors with low level right side siamesed exhaust pipes.      BSA? were BSA except for Triumph engines with High level left side siamesed exhaust pipes.    Triumph frames gave more ground clearance than BSA plus riders wanted greater access space to deal with the carburetter than  high pipes allowed.    Manufacturers moaned about the small GB plates & the Trophy Team L to R Ray Sayer, Ken Heanes, Roy Peplow, Sammy Miller, Johnny Giles & Arthur Lampkin, the machine is Arthur Lampkin's BSA!.

Britain's Vase A team has Arthur Lampkin's BSA with Gordon Farley's Triumph next to it. whew!, well spotted by Brian Catt & thanks for otherwise lost accuracy

Grreves Owner & afficionado Laurie Hampton came up with why a Royal Enfield Steel tank went on a Greeves, after his chat with Bill Brooker, simply there was no maps & card data holder on the alloy one!! This shows machines at Bordon Hants in prep for ISDT

One of the works Greeves set up with Tyrenfire system too KOO 927 a well known machine

Harry Heward who lived nr the Greeves factory, shown here on a works machine in the Welsh 3 Days event.

Here as 6 LHK is Laurie Hampton's own ex works Greeves, a beaut to own with that sort of registration number too!.

Pat Slinn here at the Team selection Trial at Bordon on that 175 Bantam Prototype ISDT machine.

Pat rode to a gold medal here in Sweden on that 175 BSA machine.

600 BMWs with 109 West Germany's H Schutze & 110 B Rindar of Sweden.

Ken Heanes again Trophy Rider

Brit Privateer on an Ariel, however with BSA engine, P Suckling.

A better view in a far worse situation of that P. Suckling machine which looks to have Norton Roadholder forks as well! Photo from the collection of Brian Catt, a long term ISDT enthusiast.

P Chicheka 125 CZ goes onto Coutry section from Road.

USA rider P Hochderffer 100 Hercules, one of the Team which could not get their bikes there on time (non arrivals!!) & HE WAS PROVIDED WITH A 100 HERCULES, TO GET HIM TO A SILVER medal.

Polish Vase rider, Jan Orzepowski 175 MZ crossing a slippery wood bridge.

Vase man John Lewis emerging from a Special Test on AJS.

Vase rider Bill Wilkinson Greeves 250.   Day 3 had 92 miles of Rain.

Jock Wilson Triumph at Kulma Slagtip where most spectators were noted to gather!, probably for spills!. Jock was the best British Privateer.

Thanks to Leo Keller we can identify Heino Beuse of the WG Panzer Trappen Schule Team (Army School for Tank forces Munsterlager, he rode with team mate Burchard Lenz both on Hercules K 100 GS Factory machines along with Ruprecht Lamers on a Zundapp 100cc, they won the Club award, presented with therir Cup by a Russian Admiral, ALL IN THE MIDDLE OF A COLD WAR only these plus Swedish Army & British Army Clubs were against 27 Civilian Clubs.

Swedish Army ran Special tests & Control points & check points. Y Ekeburg here on 125 Husqvarna leaving.

Hans Weber, East German Trophy Team man on 250 MZ.

East Germany Trophy teamster K Wagner 300 MZ on 4th Day Special Test. Day 4 had slower speed schedule after night rain.  Sweden lead turned to a loss when Torsten Anderson's Husqvarna packed in, he had repaired a leaking tank on the second day.   Day 4 used the 1st day course in reverse direction.

L Muller on the 5th Day Hill Climb on his Hercules 125.

Ray Sayer on 350 Triumph on 5th day at Kulma Slag heaps.   Day 5 had the 2nd day course in reverse direction 217 Starters.

Brian Bonny 250 Butler, of the Civil Service Club had been on zero penalties until finally the Chain adjusters gave out.  6th Day had a 72 miles ride to a 3km winding but flat Karlskeger circuit.  tweesman on BMW went out plus lofty Tony Jones who hit a branch & broke the crankcase of his Matchless.   Mick Andrews AJS Crankcase plug came out & all Gold hope was lost.  Brian Messenger on Greeves had troubles which saw him miss Gold by seconds, (Greeves always blamed plugs if anything went wrong!!)   Sonny Absolom of Southend Club could only get 11 out of the 13 required laps in on his 175 Triumph & he lost Gold.

Here is a pic thanks to Brian Catt in 66 Showing one of the Overbored Twins used in the 750 Class, here is A J Lampkin's BSA not Triumph framed beast, where he is working on the ignition layout, the OIL IN TANK type frame, you can see the filler cap to the left of his hand in the ignition recess, note the left side air filter, BSA QD wheels used for ease.