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I cannot think why anyone would want to buy what are only replicas/copies but the trade i them does make originals even more valuable. I wouldn't buy any of the copies/replicas, others do so preumably. To each his own I suppose?

While I have never heard of this racing aspect of Fay Taylour's life, does anybody at all have results or know where they can be found concerning her big circuit and Grand Prix car race career. I think she was ninth in the 1939 South African Grand Prix and years before that drove at both Brooklands and Mallory Park.

This is what the BSPA says on its statement in regard to the 2011 National League - quite clear - No Mildenhall! NATIONAL LEAGUE NEWS WEDNESDAY JANUARY 26, 2011 SPEEDWAY'S third tier will have a minimum of eight clubs competing next season. And there is a possibility that number could be up to 10 when the deadline for membership passes next Monday, January 31. Stoke Potters have been accepted into the league after switching from the Premier League and there's an exciting new venture featuring the famous old Hackney Hawks sharing Rye House and Lakeside as a home base. Of last season's clubs Mildenhall, Weymouth and Bournemouth will not be racing. The points limit for team building purposes has been set at 40. Further details, including the final National League line-up and competition format, will be released next Tuesday, February 1.

Is this quote below really factual? > > REVIEW WRITTEN BY JEFF SCOTT::: > :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > > Book Review of Keep Turning Left by Ray Lambert > "This will not be my lucky night" Wimbledon rider Ernie Roccio after breaking down on the way to a meeting at West Ham on July 22nd 1952 >

It was interesting to see a photo of the much-maligned Brian Belton in the Douglas Bikes site dealing with his book on Fay Taylor.

I wasn't on as a site member back then so this is news to me. I looked and found some people then wants to see stuff and gettogether about NX linked but it went to be a debate about pubs and wine bars and even a pub near West ham speedway so things to start to get off their first sort of topic. Never mind maybe one day we'll get a real NX reunion before all the old fans die off something like the Wokingham California speedway does each year is an idea to consider for.

I've been rapped about my previous remarks concerning the New X night and it's been suggested I might have done more to organise some of the support factors I said should have been implemented in regard to it. But the first I knew of it was when I saw the message on here and that's just three weeks from the event. Also I don't know anyone involved in this sort of thing. But I'm sure had we known about the night before it came up here that others would have been pleased to have done things to make it more than just a talk but things have been running against doing something because of the low time factor between the first message about the talk and when it would take place. With a good time span and based on what interest there has since been about the talk it seems that a golden chance to rekindle more memories about NX have been lost. May I ask just when and where the Lewisham History Society planned to make public more about the talk? I wish it all success of course.

I suppose they can but its not a speedway reunion as my first impression of it was but just something about a book on the Rangers. Whats that about the track walkabout as Ive put up here earlier as a good idea that should have been put with the talk plus to get old NX memorbilia to be shown - even a bike and race jacket as well.

My comments was when I thought this was a speedway organised event and not something by a local group most of who have probably never seen speedway let alone gone to NX which was 57 years ago when it shut down. That was my opinion on the organisation because I remember Jack Blanchard on here somewhere writing about a reunion of old NX supporters and having a walk on the old track site and thought this could have been put together but this don't seem like a meeting of old NX fans at all to me. I'm certainly not going to be coming all the way by train from Ashford just to hear people talk about a book that came into the market about two years back. And I dpn't see why I should get the organiser to try and get relics and stuff about the Rangers on display either.

Wasn't there site chatter sometime back on here about a walkabout on the site of the old speedway at what is now parkland in Peckham. Might there not just be time to get that linked in as well to the evening's event - and what exactly will that be? Are there going to be NX relics on display or what. This all seems very low key and not especially well thought out. If it's on and looks worth going to be I will be coming up from Ashford in Kent but want to know just what's ahead and not waste my time. My hope is that its something worth going to.

There's some racing this weekend at Moore Park March 6 and Rosebank March 7. Look forward to updates for both,

Hope the link works. Any views on these fourwheel racers? Far more popular in the USA than speedway bikes.

If you mean me as the first poster that's a ruddy rude comment. I also have a youtube to midgets in the Argentine Republic. Put this in your pipe and smoke it! Those Argy midgets - as they do elsewhere - broadside as well or may be better than speedway bikes do and get a lot closer to each other.

Did the meeting at Rosebank Sunday February 14 take place and was that the last meeting in the International Series? Is the NZ Grand Prix at Gisborne running this weekend Saturday February 20.

What tracks did she ride on in Germany and did Ms Taylour race anywhere else in Europe.

I would love to see any details about these races. I remember when Bryce Subritzky was the big solo star at the Springs.

Well if the overseas riders and all the kiwis are at Oreti Park on February 27 for the NZ Championship that rules out a restage of the second test the same day at kihikihi doesn't it. Are you sure the overseas riders are staying that long in NZ. Thought they might up and away after Rosebank on February 14.

This series has been rather hard to follow. Have there been any matches since the one mentioned above for Moore Park took place and the LAST ONE at Rosebank this tomorrow Sunday February 14? Is the rained off test for Hamilton being restaged or can we count that out of the schedule now meaning there were only two unofficial tests and not three meetings overall for the international teams.

Is Roger certain he was not at the GRA-sponsored CL Pairs meeting in 2005! That was absolutely dreadful, as was a Sunday afternoon meeting between Dons and Rye House.

In his book "A HISTORY OF SPEEDWAY: THE DUBLIN EXPERIENCE" the author George Kearns writes: It is a claim of many, that Speedway was invented in a New South Wales Town called Maitland in 1923 where hundreds of spectators turned up at the local sports ground to watch a motor cycle race take place on an oval grass trotting track, however yours truly, through extensive research, found that a similar motor cycle race took place in Ashtown, Dublin, on an oval cinder trotting track in 1902 which also drew large crowds of spectators, which race was more likened to a dirt track race than the aforementioned grass track race. I also put my native Dublin on record as being very much a part of the evolution of Motor Cycle Speedway by staging one of the worlds first Motor Cycle Race Meetings on an oval cinder track in 1902.

I now think it was Pietermartizburg in South Africa in 1905, although I was told some time back that a meeting took place in Calais France in the late 1890s.

Rather late - 54 years or so - some sense is being made of the report in the Speedway Star but did Sidlo come out in consecutive races.

No it was in 1923. Or was it 1904 in Ipswich as somebody suggested a while back.

As your such a big expert on this matter can you sort out Stefan Kubiak's comments on the fatal crash. Obviously a mess up was made in the translation and some confusion also seems likely over the two riders hurt in the successive heats as their surnames are similar.

Nothing wrong at all, cheers, matey! But I was just hoping it might be something like the day they have at Norwch with displays, former riders, etc coming along and hopefully to look at some old speedway bikes and wallow in nostalgia!