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  1. norbold

    Unforgettable Speedway Names

    Is your name really spingy?
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    BEST SPEEDWAY BOOK EVER

    Got mine today. Thanks Tony. Haven't read it yet but it looks very well produced.
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    help wanted

    I have Reg Trott's address. I've just sent it to you by e-mail.
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    Where are they now?

    I knew I had it somewhere! I've just found Edgar Stangeland's business card. He runs a mini digger and tipper lorry business in Ballynahinch, Northern Ireland.
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    how about...

    I can't see anything wrong in principle with the idea of a losing team being awarded some points. I don't think the supporters of a losing cricket team go home happy when their team has lost and they would never get more than the winning team or even the same but, surely, there is an argument for rewarding a team (in speedway) that loses by one point more than a team that gets thumped by 30 points or more. In fact we already have the situation where a losing team could go home with a point - it's called the bonus point for winning on aggregate. BilaHora's idea is just an extension of that.
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    For all Norwich fans

    That "wonderfully evocative photographic history of the Stars" that he mentions in the article must be a good book. I would recommend everyone should rush out and buy a copy....
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    Mauger Better Than Rickardsson?

    You mean second equal with Ove Fundin, who won his five titles against the likes of Briggs, Craven, Moore and Knutson. He also came second three times and third three times. That's a total of eleven rostrum places. For my money, he was better than both Mauger and Trick...
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    i remember when...

    Yes, the story is in John Chaplin's "The Story of the World Championship". You've remembered the story well. On Christmas Day the rider went to a workshop where the mechanic (Little Tich) was sitting and he gave him six cylinder heads a couple of cylinder barrels and the innards of a second hand machine and patted Little Tich and said "Clean 'em up son."
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    i remember when...

    In my younger days as a spectator I never came across the riders themselves much. However, I do remember that when Norman Hunter was riding for West Ham he often used to be a spectator at Hackney and I used to stand next to him or near him anyway. He always used to spend the whole match reading the Speedway Star. I don't think he ever actually watched a race. When the match was over he used to ask people around him who'd won.
  10. I'm thinking of Rupert Brooke's soldier.
  11. And don't forget there is some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.....
  12. Don't forget the Pimlico Grand Prix at...er...er...
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    The most naturally gifted rider

    You're right about what might have been as far as the 80s is concerned. It is interesting that Hans Nielsen is always talked about as one of the greatest ever - 2nd in the Speedway Star Millennium poll - and yet what might have happened if Lee and Penhall had continued, Gundersen hadn't been injured, Carter and Sanders hadn't committed suicide...? Would he still have won as many world titles as he did? It's one of those things we'll never know of course, but great for speculation.
  14. Berwick at war with Russia? Another legend I'm afraid. According to the legend, this began because Berwick, being officially of the kingdom of England, but not in it, was always mentioned separately in laws and proclamations. The Crimean War was declared on behalf of Britain and Berwick, but, so the story still goes, the Peace of Paris in 1856 missed out Berwick. 'Peterborough' in The Daily Telgraph in December 1935 recorded it was in October 1914 that the British Foreign Office hastily signed a peace treaty with Tsarist Russia tidying up this oversight. Unfortunately this was not true, the Foreign Office consulted in the 1930s and in 1965 could find no trace of this 'treaty.' Also, the documents relating to the declaration and peace do not separately mention Berwick, because by the Wales and Berwick Act of 1746 all references to England in Acts of Parliament were deemed to include Berwick, and Wales. But the story still persists, as only a good urban legend can, and Berwickers would not have it any other way.
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    i remember when...

    Thanks for that Ian. I remember the occasion well. I saw it on the front page of the Evening Standard when I went out for a break from work at lunch time. I still have the paper. It was a very sad day of course.
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    i remember when...

    Talking of Terry Stone, and digressing slightly, does anyone know how he is? I know he was unwell a little while ago and he wasn't at the Norwich 'do' at the weekend, something which he normally goes to. I hope he's ok.
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    i remember when...

    Before the Wimbledon/Hackney rivalry there was the Wimbledon/New Cross rivalry. Ronnie Greene and Johnnie Hoskins were not noted for being polite in their opinions about the other team in their programme notes. Even that gentleman of the speedway, Ronnie Moore, joined it at times. I remember he slagged us Rangers' supporters off something rotten once. It's hard to believe now, but after that he became a bit of a hate figure down the Old Kent Road. Of course, being a young teenager in those days I believed it all, but my dad used to laugh at it and say it was just done to get the crowds in and that they were all the best of friends really. I didn't believe him at the time.....
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    Where are they now?

    There could be a clue in my posting above, iris!
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    Where are they now?

    After doing so well on weirdest too!
  20. norbold

    Speedways Motocrossers

    Sorry to hear about Don. He rode for West Ham. Started out well but faded after a few meetings. I think it was because his first love was trials.
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    Where are they now?

    Edgar for the past two years that I've been, has attended the VSRA in Coventry. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, and here's a picture of him (on the right) at this year's dinner helping Olle Nygren to read a jolly good book... Edgar
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    Unforgettable Speedway Names

    On the other hand there was Alec Slow who rode for Lea Bridge. Unlike Cyril Quick I believe Alec did live up to his name....And no, I don't mean he was smart!
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    Harringay Racers

    Any chance of redeveloping the Sainsbury's next door in to a speedway track...? Just a thought.
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    Yarmouth / Norwich

    Yes. Both at Bawbrugh Golf Club
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