Ray and Matt Bell? Anyone help?

Unread post by **steve-e** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:06 pm

after my father walter hodgson died in shildon, i grew up with ray and matty bell who raced sidecars, is there any pics of ray from shildon, he and mac hobson had some good scraps, my dad died after racing at druridge bay with ray. i now live in australia. - Brian Hodgson

oldbelly · Unread post by **oldbelly** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 3:31 pm

Matty died some years ago. I was speaking with Ray at our Croft meeting NEMCRC three weeks ago. He hasnt changed much over the years

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oldbelly · Unread post by **oldbelly** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 3:37 pm

I forgot to mention that Ray and Matty are no relation to us. When I raced with my dad Geordie Bell we had some good races with Ray and Gordon Russel on his Vincent and then the Konig outfits

alanw · Unread post by **alanw** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:41 am

Geoff was that the bloke that built the long Baker copy that Steve Mills had?

oldbelly · Unread post by **oldbelly** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:02 pm

No Alan that was a different Ray Bell. Again no relation, who lived in Newcastle.

gvh · Unread post by **gvh** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 11:48 pm

Pictures of Ray Bell with Mick France in the chair, 1968 and 1969 TT, racing the Rennsport BMW prepared by his brother Matty Bell and an outfit with a road going RS90 motor fitted.

tonybsa2008 · Unread post by **tonybsa2008** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:02 pm

My Dad was a customer of Matys(my dad comes from Shildon),I believe Ray was lap record holder at Croft for a while,possibly 76?on the ex Trevor Ireson Konig.Im pretty sure I have a pic of that somewhere.I also believe they used to have a rather quick Vincent outfit.

oldbelly · Unread post by **oldbelly** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:49 pm

It was on the Vincent that Ray realy made his name, especialy with Gordon Russel as passenger . They changed to an ex Stuart Applegate Konig after that with more success. After that Konig came the realy bonny Trevor Ireson Konig outfit. Then they got a TZ 750 outfit with a chassis built by Ken Blacklock , I think. Ray never liked the Yamaha though , said he prefered the Konigs. After 75 Terry Bradley was Rays passenger.

tonybsa2008 · Unread post by **tonybsa2008** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:57 pm

Any idea what happened to the Ireson Konig?

oldbelly · Unread post by **oldbelly** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:09 pm

No I dont know where that went Tony

Dave Mallon · Unread post by **Dave Mallon** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:15 pm

Bryan The NEMCRC are having our first meeting of 2012 and its also to celabrate the 50th anniversary of the club so if Ray is there I will pass on your good wishes.