 He won the 1935 Junior Manx Grand Prix and then joined the Norton team for the 1936 TT Races.It was a winning combination as he claimed the Junior TT and finished second in the Senior TT as well as winning the 350cc European Championship.In 1937 he went one better in the Senior and took a brilliant win and setting the first 90 mph plus lap of the Snaefell Mountain Course.