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  1. Posted

    jim gleed alive and well and lives near reading until recentely (andmay still be)worked in a timber yard he did ride for the poppies and signed for southampton but never rode also rode for a couple of other clubs at s.a.l. standard

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    june 1971 dragged down to poole speedway by my parent(i was a football mad 12 y.o.) to see some one called barry briggs

    stood on the corner got covered in shale briggo fell off whilst a mile in front mike cake won the race reidar eide 2nd poole won 40-38 the teams

    poole swindon

    reidar eide barry briggs

    mike cake pete munday

    pete smith mike broadbank

    bo wirebrand mike keen

    odd fossengen martin ashby

    john langfeild clive hitch

    derek cook jimmy gallagher

    i was hooked straight away and the rest is history as they say

  6. Posted

    Sadly Gil Goldfinch passed away a few years back. Cannot help with Geoff but believe he is still living in the south of England.

    Tony

    gil commited suicide and geoff is alive and well and living in surrey

     

  7. Posted

    there have been rumours flying about for a few months about garry if you go to the hacney hawks web site someone claiming to be his neice says garry passed away a few months ago ,however no one seems able to ratify this .nothing in the speedway star etc.my last know knowledge of garry was he was in jail in the u.s.a and it was going to be for quite a long period but the man is a complete enigma .how many peole can still be making headlines after all these years

  8. Posted

    I have been watching this thread for a few days now. Is it actually been confirmed that Shawn Moran is in such a predicament as been stated?

     

    If so (just thinking out loud now) is there not something we can do collectively to help the guy. If a fund was raised or something - I would willingly contribute.

    yes i couldnt agree more as you know i raise a lot of money for the srbf and no way would i contribute to a shawn moran fund after all no one done it for soren sjosten ken mckinlay ron johnston or jack young all of whom had similar problems sorry shawn no way

     

  11. Posted

    if you have the history of exeter on video goog actually says on there he was happy to be a big fish in a small pool rather than being a little fish in a big pool a truly nice man and sadly missed by all

  12. Posted

    good fridays and easter mondays poole vs exeter truly great days the poole blue riband having an unknown eastern european team ride at poole and blow us away the knott family for being truly great promoters and men of their word and honour many modern promoters take note christer lofqvist john langfeild odd fossengen nigel boocock begnt jansson et al i could wax lyrical all day the 70.s were deffinentely halcyon days big big sigh !!!!1

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    I knew a Gerry Bridson here in Perth years ago. He rode a few seasons at Claremont around the late 60's - early 70's. There was a little bio of him in the local track programme or a magazine back then. I have to rely on my memory about this, so please forgive any wrong info. I think Gerry was actually born in the UK and immigrated to New Zealand in the early 50's. He was a friend of Barry Briggs' and travelled back to the UK with him and had something of a career there as a speedway rider. Sometime later, he moved to Perth, Western Australia and while I don't know much about his involvement in speedway after that, I do remember him making a reappearance at Claremont around the time above....late 60's - early 70's.

     

    He sticks in my memory mostly because of two of the funniest things I've ever seen in speedway. The first was of Gerry making a copy book lay down to miss a fallen rider, right outside the pit gates at Claremont. After the race was over and he was walking across the track to the pits, everyone watching from the pits gave him a standing ovation and Gerry stopped and with helmet in one hand and gloves in the other, made a very elaborate bow to us all. I reckon if he had seen it, it would have even cracked the stone-like visage of Chum Taylor!

     

    The second story is something that might have been very serious, but turned out to be something else altogether. As he was coming out of the top bend at Claremont, Gerry and a rider named Ian Clifton clashed. Unbeknowst to Gerry, Ian's foot and leg had been picked up by Gerry's rear wheel and been dragged over the tyre and down the mudguard, behind the counter-shaft. We all watched from the pits at the strange sight of two men and two machines locked together and gradually going slower and slower until finally they both stopped and fell in a heap on the track. Gerry said later that he couldn't work out what was wrong with the bike...he was just about screwing the throttle off the handlebars and the bike just keep going slower and slower. Then he turned around and saw Ian, who had somehow been twisted around on his bike into such a position that the handlebars were across his throat and slowly choking him! Amazingly, Ian suffered no serious damage at all. His boot and leathers were nearly worn through, but he had no damage to himself at all. I don't know if Kevlar would stand up to that sort of treatment! lol

    gerry now lives in the channel islands and i last saw him at maury mattingleys funnneral last year but is alive and well

  15. Posted

    john langgfield ,christer lofqvist the coloured lights round the track at poole second halfs proper internationals and riders who didnt disapear abroad all the time the poole supporters club riders rosettes and the knotts slick presentations and un complicated race jackets

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    Frank Malouf's career in UK

     

    1948 FLEETWOOD

    1949 FLEETWOOD 131 pts

    1950 NO RECORD FOUND

    1951 LONG EATON 218 pts top scorer

    1952 LONG EATON 51pts

    1953 LIVERPOOL

     

    RODE NSW MID 1950'S

     

    My good friend former Ipswich rider Rod Laudrum in ESSEX has many stories of when he rode with Frank in Holland 1952/1953

     

    Died SYDNEY 2004 AGED 88

    dear shaleway you missed out SOUTHAMTON

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    Frank Malouf's grandson emailed me asking about his grandad. Does nyone have any info on Frank that I can pass on to his grandson
    breifly rode for southampton then i belive he rode for wigan in the late 50s early 60s ??@????

     

  19. Posted

    OK folks, I am getting more and more interested in this-so I consulted that trusty and comprehensive book "British Speedway Leagues 1946-64" by Peter Morrish published in 1984. If memory serves Peter used to write in the Speedway Star about the Midland tracks-and no before anyone asks he was NOT Eric Linden. According to this book there was a Jack Scott 1st, a Bluey Scott and a Jack Scott 2nd. The latter two are the ones who have been (endlessly) discussed and their careers as outlined by britmet(for Bluey) and oddfossengen (Jack 2nd) accord with Peter's book. HOWEVER-there is a Jack Scott 1st listed for Hastings in 1948-he scored just 7 pts. that year. Bluey is shown as B.Scott throughout and is also shown as B.Scott in the Stenners Annuals of that period.Therefore my conclusion is that there WERE two Jack Scott's as discussed but Bluey was a third Scott( I don't reckon he is the Hastings rider because he is always listed as B.Scott from the getgo). I still reckon his name was Eric. Does anybody know Reg Fearman because I reckon as Bluey's old promoter at Middlesbrough and with his excellent memory and records he should know.In fact does Reg read the forum?? I will buy a beer on my next trip to UK for anyone who can solve this conclusively. P.S. to Norbold and starghost can you add anything to this???
    sorry being a pirates supportter we dont even mention FEARMANS name down here he nearly cost us the club end off

     

  22. Posted

    I don't recollect another rider, BUT at the same time, 1960, Canadian Jack Scott sang "What in the World's Come Over You" ino the UK hit parade.

    yes there were two jack scotts ironically both rode for southampton one the early 50s and his nickname was bluey and the other jack rode in the late 50s before moving to plymouth

  25. Posted

    following this years amazing get together at sammy millers ,so every one has time to book it in their dairies and not be on holiday the date for next years bash is sunday 19th of july be there or be square a sponsor is negotiating with ove fundin for next years bash plus briggo and freddie williams have expressed a willingness to attend p.s im presenting a cheque for £1000 to the riders benevolent fund at poole tonight a big thank you to all who attended yours in speedway andy scorey

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