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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?

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re California supporters trophy

 

S Star shows Goody on 13 and Sharp on 11 implying ht 19 result is wrongly recorded on Sp Researcher.

nb Scores for Sweetman, Dolling and Guttridge also disagree between the two sources

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Ringwood closed down mid-1955, their last home meeting was v Eastbourne on May 22nd.

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London White City held the Cavalcade of Speed.  As in other years this was a mixed meeting with little Speedway (a couple of heats).

 

Middlesbrough meetings were apparently 'club only' events and so closed to the public.

 

Check out some details on the Researcher website at http://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/1955matchlistings.pdf (page 5)

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8 minutes ago, compost said:

London White City held the Cavalcade of Speed.  As in other years this was a mixed meeting with little Speedway (a couple of heats).Middlesbrough meetings were apparently 'club only' events and so closed to the public.Check out some details on the Researcher website at http://www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/1955matchlistings.pdf (page 5)

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.

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17 hours ago, daveallan81 said:

12/04/1955

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12/04/1955 Southampton v Stockholm 59-37  - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT   12th April 1955 Southampton 59 Stockholm 37 confirmed.

 

17/04/1955 Ringwood Open - DID ANY MEETING TAKE PLACE? Although Speedway News included an Open Meeting in the list of forthcoming fixtures, Speedway Star and Speedway World did not; no mention of results or postponement was mentioned in any of these publications.

 

03/05/1955 Southampton v Ipswich Rained Off - CONFIRM DATE 3rd May 1955, rained off – confirmed.

 

13/05/1955 Bristol - DID ANY MEETING TAKE PLACE?   No meeting; Bristol were due to have raced a Division 2 match at Weymouth on that date.

 

21/05/1955 Belle Vue Empire Day Best Pairs - Sharples/Craven tied with Young/Cuppleditch - ANY OUTRIGHT RESULT OR JUST A TIE?   The declared winning ‘pair’ was Moore 14, How 2 plus Fisher (reserve) 1 and Williams (reserve) 1 totalling 18. 

 

04/06/1955 Belle Vue Belle Vue Cup - Johnston, Craven & Sharples finished tied on 7 - ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER OR JUST A TIE?   Johnston won the run-off for first place, with Sharples second ahead of Craven.

 

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?

Neither took place - see comments by Sotonian.

 

05/07/1955 Southampton World Championship QR Winner: Dick Bradley - CONFIRM DATE AND RESULT   5th July 1955; Dick Bradley 12, Les McGillivray, John Fitzpatrick & Ian Williams 11.

 

11/09/1955 Brafield v Eastbourne (Challenge) - RESULT?  Not staged.  This should have been a Southern Area League match, but instead the meeting at Eastbourne the following week was raced for double match points.  Brafield suffered low crowds and had been threatening to close for some time, but soldiered on as the withdrawal of Ringwood had left a league of just 4 teams.

 

13/09/1955 Southampton Open Trophy Winner Jack Geran - CONFIRM DATE & RESULT

13th September 1955; Jack Geran 13, Brian Hanham & Ken McKinlay 12.

 

20/09/1955 Swindon v Wimbledon 44-52 - NOT ON RESEARCHER WIMBLEDON FILE, CONFIRM DATE, EVENT & RESULT   This should be Southampton 44 Wimbledon 52 (Challenge) at Southampton on 20th September 1955.

 

02/10/1955 California Supporters Handicap Trophy Gooddy & Goldfinch finished tied on 14 - ANY OUTRIGHT WINNER? Goldfinch won with 14 points, Gooddy scored 13.

 

Both London White City & Middlesbrough appear to have run meetings but I have nothing for either - can anyone add anything?  

White City 24th May 1955; the annual Cavalcade of Sport, which included three ‘speedway races’ on the athletics track, with competitors usually riding Vespa machines in those events.  ‘Speedway’ consisted of two flying start match races and a final; Ht 1 Aub Lawson beat Barry Briggs; Ht 2 Ronnie Moore beat Cyril Roger; Final Moore beat Lawson.  This was the only meeting staged at White City that year.  See the comments by Compost. 

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