daveallan81

Thanks for sorting that little lot out. Here are the rest of my queries for 1954: 18/04 California Best Pairs - Goldfinch & Mitchell tied on 16 points with Preedy & Baker - WAS THERE AN OUTRIGHT WINNER? 25/04 Brafield - WAS ANYTHING STAGED? 05/06 Aldershot Best Pairs - Result shown on Researcher file as a tie between Hockaday & Bunney and Taylor & Mason - WAS THERE AN OUTRIGHT WINNER? 27/06 California Eastbourne 60-32 - California Researcher file has just a basic entry with no result and the Eastbourne file carries nothing at all. The result was on my original sheet - CONFIRM FIXTURE & RESULT

Regarding 18/04 Ringwood v Brafield, the result is on the Brafield Speedway Researcher file but not on the Ringwood file. Though shown as a S.A.L. match it obviously wasn't - so was it just a challenge? Regarding Rigwood v Aldershot, I have a league fixture being raced on 20/06 result 50-33. Was this actually a challenge match? I have an Aldershot v Ringwood fixture in the Metropolitan League on 24/04, result 48-36. Did the Metro League become the S.A.L.? The 17/04 Aldershot v Eastbourne is also shown as the Metro League and this now seems to be a S.A.L. fixture. The good news is the for/against points totals are now balanced across the board.

12/04/1955 Southampton v Stockholm 59-37 - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT 17/04/1955 Ringwood Open - DID ANY MEETING TAKE PLACE? 03/05/1955 Southampton v Ipswich Rained Off - CONFIRM DATE 13/05/1955 Bristol - DID ANY MEETING TAKE PLACE? 21/05/1955 Belle Vue Empire Day Best Pairs - Sharples/Craven tied with Young/Cuppleditch - ANY OUTRIGHT RESULT OR JUST A TIE? 04/06/1955 Belle Vue Belle Vue Cup - Johnston, Craven & Sharples finished tied on 7 - ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER OR JUST A TIE? 05/06/1955 Ringwood Open - DID ANY MEETING TAKE PLACE? 19/06/1955 Ringwood v Brafield (SAL) - DOESN'T APPEAR TO HAVE GONE AHEAD, REASON? 05/07/1955 Southampton World Championship QR Winner: Dick Bradley - CONFIRM DATE AND RESULT 11/09/1955 Brafield v Eastbourne (Challenge) - RESULT? 13/09/1955 Southampton Open Trophy Winner Jack Geran - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT 20/09/1955 Swindon v Wimbledon 44-52 - NOT ON RESEARCHER WIMBLEDON FILE, CONFIRM DATE, EVENT & RESULT 02/10/1955 California Supporters Handicap Trophy Gooddy & Goldfinch finished tied on 14 - ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER? Both London White City & Middlesbrough appear to have run meetings but I have nothing for either - can anyone add anything?

Outstanding information as always. Thanks to all for your contributions.

That worksheet is actually what I'm attempting to update but it varies slightly from the Excel version I have so thanks for the heads up.

Continuing to work on these results lists, here I need help with: Oxford v Leicester (Challenge) 65-29 - Speedway Researcher file has the date as Monday 14th April. However 14th April was a Sunday. My list has the meeting on Friday 19th April - CONFIRM DATE. 08/04/1957 Southampton: Crutcher v Knutsson (Practice) 50-43 - DATE, TEAM NAMES & RESULT 19/04/1957 Southampton: Good Friday Trophy - Winner: Brian Crutcher - DATE & RESULT 21/05/1957 Southampton: Pictorial Trophy - Winner: Brian Crutcher - DATE & RESULT 18/06/1957 Southampton: Handicap Trophy - Winner: George White - DATE & RESULT 16/07/1957 Southampton: World Championship British QR - Winner: Brian Crutcher - DATE & RESULT My fixture list has entries for the following but is lacking in the necessary details: 26/07 Bradford (Postponed due to bus strike) DATE & MEETING 14/09 Aldershot DATE, MEETING & RESULT 16/09 Exeter DATE, MEETING & RESULT 22/09 California DATE, MEETING & RESULT 06/10 California - listed as Supporters Trophy, postponed. CONFIRM DATE, MEETING AND REASON FOR POSTPONEMENT.

Battling manfully onward with 1956: 30/03/1956 Southampton v Monarkerna 54-42 CONFIRM DATE & RESULT 10/07/1956 Southampton World Championship QR Winner: Len Williams DATE & RESULT 29/07/1956 California v Southern Rovers (SAL) DATE & OUTCOME (postponed?) 26/08/1956 Rye House Brian Crutcher Trophy DATE & OUTCOME (postponed?) 27/08/1956 Southampton Pictorial Trophy Winner: Edwards DATE & RESULT (forename?) 06/09/1956 Oxford King's Of Oxford Trophy DATE & OUTCOME (postponed? this meeting appears to have taken place 7 days later) 16/09/1956 Eastbourne Sussex Championship Winner: Merv Hannan DATE & RESULT 09/10/1956 Southampton Ernie Rawlins Memorial Trophy Winner: Dick Bradley DATE & RESULT 21/10/1956 Rye House v California (Challenge) DATE & OUTCOME (no result posted) The Speedway Researcher California file carries details for a home match with Rye House but no date. Result 44-39. Any further info on this one since publication? London White City shows as having run in 1956 but my list merely states "fixtures incomplete". Any info available?

Cheers. I hadn't thought to check the League Cup fixtures out, I had wrongly assumed it was just an unfinished competition with only 4 fixtures.

With regards to the league cup, were the 2 semi-finals one-legged affairs with Rye House defeating Southern Rovers 58-50 on 10th June and California defeating Eastbourne 61-46 on the 17th?

I've got a point kicking in the for/against totals of Aldershot and Rye House. The results I have are: 13/07 Aldershot 51 Rye 32 14/07 Rye 52 Aldershot 29 07/09 Aldershot 60 Rye 23 08/09 Rye 48 Aldershot 35 Can someone please confirm these results?

Where are CSI: Aldershot when you need them? I forgot to mention the Colin Pratt "error" (a word I'm reluctant to use because I fully appreciate the difficulty in ascertaining the facts from back in the day). All I can add at this point is the 59-23 result tallies with the S.A.L. table on the SGB website, which will do nicely for my purposes.

Good stuff, thank you. I spent a while double checking the Researcher files last night and discovered that in the 07/09 report Dave Slater is missing from the individual scorechart. He scores 2 (0, 0, 1, 1). It didn't resolve the extra point issue of course but perhaps it could be a lead.

The Oxford files on Speedway Researcher show no track records were set in 1972. However in 1973 George Hunter is credited with a TR of 65.4 in heat 2 of the Midland Riders QR on 10/05/1973. So it appears the track was changed between the 72 & 73 seasons. Ole Olsen lowered it to 65.2 in heat 6 of the Champions' £100 Trophy on 19th July.

As always I'm looking for help with the following: 04/04 Oxford - programme says Easter Cup Trophy won by Jack Young but I have a fixture entitled North v South with result 44-52. No mention of any event on this date in Speedway Researcher file. Can anyone shed light on this one? 26/05 Wimbledon - fixture described merely as 'Open'. It was cancelled due to the London bus strike. What was this proposed meeting, individual, pairs, etc?? 26/05 Exeter - Open Championship - was result a tie between Ronnie Genz & Dick Bradley or was there an outright winner? 10/06 Southampton - Southern Riders Championship QR - Winner: Ove Fundin CONFIRM DATE & RESULT 15/07 Southampton - World Championship British QR - Winner: Ronnie Genz CONFIRM DATE & RESULT 19/08 Southampton - World Championship British SF - Winner: Jack Geran CONFIRM DATE & RESULT

Ach I should have spotted the Bradley typo! Splendid stuff, thanks again.

Tidying up a 1959 results list. Can anyone help with the following: 22/03 Ainsdale - Novice Championship - Winner: Derek Skyner CONFIRM DATE & RESULT 27/03 Southampton v The Rest (Challenge) 62-33 DATE & RESULT 11/04 Norwich v Poole (Britannia Shield) Postponed - rain DATE 18/04 Edinburgh - Student Open Championship - Winner: Templeton DATE & RESULT (WHICH TEMPLETON?) 25/04 Swindon v Poole (Britannia Shield) Postponed - rain DATE 12/05 Southampton - Southern Riders Championship QR - Joint Winners: Oven Fundin & Ron How DATE & RESULT 16/06 Southampton - Pride Of The South - Winner: Brian Crutcher DATE & RESULT 30/06 Southampton v Polish Touring Team 55-35 DATE & RESULT 15/07 St. Austell - British League Pairs - Winners: I. Williams & G. White AND/OR M. Broadbank & N. Street DATE & RESULT (TIE?) 30/08 or 03/09 Ipswich - Suffolk Junior Championship - Winner: Dave Hankins DATE 22/09 Southampton v Continentals 66-42 DATE & RESULT Concerning the Southern Area League - did Aldershot take over Southern Rovers fixtures and incorporate the 31st May Eastbourne 38 Souther Rovers 34 result into their figures, therefor not racing a league match at Eastbourne?

Great help as always, many thanks.

Cheers Sidney.

Can someone clarify why Jan Mucha did not appear to ride in this meeting? Was he replaced by first reserve Ryszard Fabiszewski who also didn't ride?

Cheers.

I'm looking for the following indoor information if anyone can oblige: 1981 Devil Take The Hindmost race time 1983 Lada W.C.S.S.I. qualifying heat 2 race time 1983 Lada W.C.S.S.I. repechage heat B - confirm the line-up & result which I have as Joe Owen (W), Erik Gundersen (YB), Ari Koponen (B), 38.6 - no rider in red.

Thanks for that. I thought that might be the case with Joe owen but just wanted to double check. Cheers.

Can someone confirm these 4 results - I'm anticipating two of them to be incorrect: 09/08/1991 Peterborough 52 Milton Keynes 38 27/08/1991 Milton Keynes 51 Peterborough 39 31/08/1991 Arena Essex 62 Peterborough 28 04/10/1991 Peterborough 47 Arena Essex 43 And I need to cinfirm these final for/against race points totals for the Gold Cup South group: Arena Essex 441 - 454 Exeter 488 - 405 Hackney 416 - 477 Milton Keynes 445 - 455 Peterborough 488 - 406 Rye House 409 - 490

Can anyone confirm these For & Against points totals for the 2002 Conference Trophy: Buxton 497 - 399 Carmarthen 477 - 423 Mildenhall 525 - 375 Swindon 438 - 464 Wimbledon 410 - 483 Wolverhampton 345 - 548 I also require confirmation of these three fixtures, one abandoned and two postponed: 06/09/2002 Newport v Peterborough (Conference League) - Postponed 05/10/2002 King's Lynn Best Pairs - Abandoned (at what heat and reason if possible) 13/10/2002 Belle Vue v Wolverhampton (Craven Shield) - Postponed

A couple of queries if anyone can help: 15th August World Team Cup Final - Victor Ludorum heat details 5th September Embassy British Open - meeting reserves