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Nigel Alderton definitely did ride for Edinburgh - he started in the UK , the same time as Jason Lyons first rode for Glasgow. Has anyone mentioned Brian Nixon who rode for Glasgow at Shawfield in the 90s. ?

You can add Bryan Townsend the Kiwi who rode for Paisley at the start of 1975.

Johnny Oram (Edinburgh c.1953), Darren Winkler (Edinburgh Powderhall era). Jack Lassagna (Edinburgh/Sheffield c. 1950/51)

Puma - although it has been listed earlier, you've not noticed that Tommy Knudsen (Coventry) & Tom Knudsen (Poole) were different Danes.

Quite correct - put it down to creeping senility . I got mixed up with Bert Clark who rode with Bester @ Edinburgh in 1954. Clark was a Scotsman who emigrated to Rhodesia and took up Speedway there & returned to Scotland to ride for the Monarchs. I don't know if he became a naturalised Rhodesian however.

Danes Preben Andreasen who did 1 match for Edinburgh in 1965 & got injured in 1st heat & Robert Larsen who made a sensational debut for Monarchs vs Poole during the Powderhall era (he beat Craig Boyce amongst others in his double figure score), but unfortunately never reproduced that form

Are my posts invisible to you Puma ??

Copycat ! BTW has anyone mentioned South African Fred Lang who rode Wembley Lions in 1954 as well as the same named team in his homeland

Alf Wells (Edinburgh), Rim Malskaitis (Long Eaton)

Click on Speedway Swap Shop, which is a site which has progs for swap, as well as a photo gallery of old progs & badges from 1928.

Was at that meeting and I recall he was introduced as a Yank from the East Coast.

Laurie Packer who rode for Edinburgh 1939 & Birmingham 1946 was either Canadian or Oz - can anyone confirm his nationality ?

Doug & Bob Serrurier , Fred Wills(South Africa) who rode @ Liverpool 1949/50, Buddy Fuller )South Africa) who rode @ Hastings & Liverpool, Roy Bester (Rhodesia) Edinburgh 1954, Arthur Duncan (S Africa) Birmingham 1956.

Aage Hansen of Norway who briefly rode @ Ipswich in 1957, but clocked some decent scores

It was Johnnie Faafeng who rode for Glasgow around 1966/67. He was killed in a car crash, and I remember the story doing the rounds that he had been a bit of nutter who used to use a brick on the accelerator when driving on the motorways.

Les Beaumont

The worst leathers I can recall were the one's that Rene Aas wore during his brief spell with the Monarchs. The looked like a pair that failed Warsaw Pact quality control standards and were obviously far too big for him, resulting in him doing a fair impersonation of an Eastern European version of Michelin Man on a speedway bike.

Think that Chum Taylor & Johnnie Chamberlain are other way round ?

It's up for swap on this site !!! :- Speedwayswapshop

Ron Johnston (nb the "t" was dropped off for some reason ?) was born at Milton Douglas, Duntocher & emigrated to Oz when aged six. A photocopy of his birth certificate appears in 1948 Stenners Supplement, page 213, with dob of 24/2/1907. Did Gordon McGregor never make the reserve berth in a World Final ?

Wouldn't by any chance be a mispronounciation of Dave Rattenbury - world famous purveyor of Speedway Souvenirs, the length & breadth of the country ??

I was on that train (apparently the longest passenger train in terms of carriages going across Europe at that time). It had two engines pulling it along (apparently red Russian diesel beasts !). It was magic & remember in particular :- A field in East Germany which was full of Russian tanks on manoevres. Passing through a massive rail marshalling yard in Poland early in the morning which had the awesome site of a multitude of steam locos (apparently the were US made, provided under the Marshall Aid Plan) warming up. Hassle with Border Guards returning when we were going into East Berlin & they wouldn't let the train move until all Union Jack flags were taken in from the windows. My mate having the foresight to bring bog rolls with him which were invaluable when there were none in the carriage WCs BTW tmc, there were quite a few Scots there supporting the British riders also. Definitely a memorable trip & I could fill pages on this.

The BBC has a website where you can download film clips from the programmes. Try :- .nation on film It mentions a a 30 second silent Motorcycling - Scrambling shot. As I'm not au fait with downloading film clips perhaps someone else can try

Surely Norman Parker was riding for Coventry or Harringay when you were born ??

Afraid not - your probably thinking of Dave Stevens. DW first started going to Speedway when Crayford opened up near his home in Welling in 1968.