Chris’ early racing career doesn’t seem to be covered much “on web”. The first mention, in the text of Racing Line, is from 1963, although he does appear in the results from previous year’s events. Much mention of his Southern 100, MGP, TT and GP participation though.
Looking back through the race programmes I still have from 1960 through 1967, when I first started attending races as a “gofer” with my brother-in-law, before stating to race myself in 1963, I have found entries for Chris at Brands and Snetterton. There could have been earlier entries at, say, Castle Combe, but the first I found was 4 Sept, 60 at Snetterton and 31 March, 61 at Brands, both on his 500 Manx. In 61 he entered the 250 class on an Ariel Arrow as well as the Manx at 1 Brands and 2 Snetterton events but it doesn’t look like he started in these races.
From mid-62 and in 63 his entrant was listed as H. Middleton and he entered on a 350 Manx as well as his 500. I don’t have any 64 programmes and only 1 65 for the 5 Sept event at Snetterton where his entrant was Alan Dudley-Ward. The last entry in my programmes that I have for him was the International event on 10 April, 66 where he rode Tom Kirby’s in both 350 and 500 races.
Stan