PROPERTY OF DENIS JENKINSON (known as 'DSJ' or 'Jenks' to many) As bequeathed to Mick Wilkins, a fellow enthusiast, personal friend and motorcycle res

PROPERTY OF DENIS JENKINSON (known as 'DSJ' or 'Jenks' to many) As bequeathed to Mick Wilkins, a fellow enthusiast, personal friend and motorcycle restoration associate. Denis Jenkinson's 1949 FIM World Champion Sidecar Passenger and other race medallions, the legend CHAMPION DU MONDE 1949 above the FIM crest with SID. PASS. below, coloured ceramics inlaid on brass by Bertoni of Milan in the form of a lapel badge, 3 by 2.5cm., a relief FMB FIM sidecar competitor's plaque titled GRAND PRIX DE BELGIQUE DE VITESSE DES MOTOS, FRANCORCHAMPS 6 JUILLET 1952, brass 9 by 7cm., a circular relief competitor's plaque with 20 JAHRE HOCKENHEIM-RING and INTERN. RHEIN-POKAL-RENNEN 11.5.1952 upon a blue ceramic ring above and below a racing car and motorcycle, brass 8cm. diam., also a small wooden hand carved cask engraved GRAND PRIX SUISSE, BERNE 1952, with fitted lid marked 32, 15cm. high, plus a lapel badge with BRITISH MOTOR CYCLE RACING CLUB set between two Union Flags in coloured ceramics on brass; together with Dennis Jenkinson's motorcycle hand-written competition notes from 1948 to 1952, contained in two exercise books, each season including engine settings and performance notes event by event, plus some notes on continental racing cars he encountered, also the 1939 TT and 1951 Motor-Cycle Show editions of Motor Cycling magazine, various period motorcycle photos, including some of him in action, plus several more recent historic motor cycle racing publications, a Vintage Motorcycle Club Founder Member pin badge and 21st Manx Rally motorcycle medallion (qty.) As a committed, yet impoverished motorsport enthusiast, 'Jenks' was forced to turn to two-wheels when racing resumed after WWII. He then met up with Eric Oliver, whose passenger he became and they won the FIM World Sidecar Championship in 1949. Thereafter, he decided to move to Brussels and rode with Marcel Masuy for three seasons, until he became Continental Correspondent for Motor Sport magazine.