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Charlie Salt

Picture 1 shows Bill Nicholson and Bert Hopwood demonstrating the Super Flash to the French police at Monthlery April 1951. Picture 2 is a feature on the event from a French bike magazine. Picture 3 may be from a different magazine or issue and interestingly describes the bike as having 2 carburettors - it clearly doesn't.

The French police wanted a bike that would haul a fully-equipped Gendarme sitting upright at 100mph. The only way the BSA test riders Charlie salt and Bill Nicholson could do this was to chin the tank in the wooded section of Monthlery where they couldn't be seen, get to 100 then sit up just as they emerged from the trees and into view...

http://www.restorenik.com/Super%20Flash/details_and_specifications.htm

1957 Charlie Salt (GBR) Ulster GP Death

Charlie SALT - Senior TT, 1957, Isle of Man http://forums.atlasf1.com/showthread.php?postid=1721605

Rode in TT from 1946 to 1957. It was mostly Norton with a bit of Velocette riding till 1951, when he rode for BSA. His best ever TT result was a tenth place on a Pike-Rudge in the 1952 Lightweight, and for BSA, a 13th in the 1951 Ultra Lightweight TT. http://www.iomtt.com/TTDatabase/Races.aspx?meet_code=ALL&ride_id=1153

The record breaking Senior TT Race and the Golden Jubilee celebrations are marred by the death of Charlie Salt who crashes a BSA motor-cycle at Ballagarraghyn Corner and is killed during the later stages of the 1957 Senior TT Race.[12]"The Motor-Cycle" dated 13th June 1957