norbold

They certainly sound familiar...especially Leo McAuliffe, who, of course, rode for New Cross. By the way, do you mean Tim Bungay?

How about Ronnie Moore? See Brian Burford's article in last week's Speedway Star.

I only ever went to Cradley once and it was one of the happiest nights of my speedway life as it was the night West Ham completed the treble in 1965 - the first year of the British League. I can't remember any of the Cradley riders I'm sorry to say, but I can remember the West Ham team. (I'll look up the programme tonight and see who was riding for Cradley - unless anyone can tell me in the meantime.)

I still want to know if my answer to Dick Dastardly's question is right! Come back, Jim.... Anyway, where's your question gone?

They didn't have a home base. That's why they were called the Rovers. By the way, Jim, what's the answer to your question? The suspense is killing me!

Thanks for ther memory there, Grachan. One of the all time great races. Ahem!

Erik Gundersen? 1984 Longtrack other three 1985.

Correct

OK, talking of Norwich and 1962...which rider made his debut for Norwich in 1960 scoring nil points from 4 matches, but in 1962 went to Belle Vue with the Stars and scored a 15 point maximum in a league match including two victories over Peter Craven on a night when Fundin scored just 4 points?

Ove Fundin, Olle Nygren and Gote Nordin. Next. Correct Touche!

Name the three Swedes who rode for Norwich in 1962

Did you see the photograph of our old friend 'Crusty' Pye in last week's Speedway Star. He was on the right of the post-war Middlesborough team line up. Good to see he's been recognised at last.

Graham Banks Next

Not quite. We haven't discussed the merits of Eric Collins yet - rode for Wimbledon before the War. Was he as good as Neil? Or maybe Les?

Wouldn't exactly stick my life on him being the best ever Norbold. But the Peter Collins of the mid-70s was definitely up there - he was magic. Yep, I'll go along with that.

Don't know I'd go as far as most talented rider in the world ever, but certainly in the Collins family.

Have you been converted at last then, Jim...er...Dick?

In that case, I feel sorry for all the youngsters who never had a chance to see our Sverre in full flight. He was always worth the price of admission at Custom House on his own. Isn't that right CHK?

Erik Gundersen?

The final score was indeed Manchester United 1 Ipswich 2

Sverre Harrfeldt, Christer Lofqvist, Peter Collins, Ove Fundin, Aub Lawson (just makes it as he rode in 1960!), Boris Samorodov, John Cook, Michael Lee, Barry Thomas, Chris Julian.

That's going to take a little more digging CC, but we'll come up with it sooner or later! I blame Peter Oakes for writing his history of the British League too early....

1983: Craig Featherby: 31 152 313 16 329 8.658 1 1 2 Keith White: 36 193 395 18 413 8.560 2 0 2 Steve Payne: 13 63 120 14 134 8.508 0 1 1 Charlie McKinna: 33 176 303 42 345 7.841 Craig Pendlebury: 5 26 33 11 44 6.769 Chris Pidcock: 30 128 167 28 195 6.094 Paul Clarke: 36 175 212.5 31 243.5 5.566 Dennis Mallett: 23 114 115 28 143 5.018 Peter Framingham: 10 34 36.5 6 42.5 5.000 Greg Williamson: 3 6 4 2 6 4.00 Steve Mildoon: 9 23 12 4 16 2.783 Graham Plant: 3 9 4 2 6 2.667 Robert Wall: 9 27 12 4 16 2.370 Chris Hunt: 1 4 0 0 0 0.000

1982: Keith White: 36 181 343 23 366 8.088 3 1 4 Andy Hibbs: 11 51 94 8 102 8.000 Craig Featherby: 35 166 281 20 301 7.253 1 0 1 Nigel Sparshott: 37 203 327 30 357 7.034 Brett Alderton: 2 11 17 1 18 6.545 Steve Payne: 35 178 239 41 280 6.292 1 0 1 Tony Featherstone: 35 172 211 30 241 5.605 Paul Clarke: 24 102 88 16 104 4.078 Kevin Lock: 1 1 1 0 1 4.000 Mark Reeve: 7 23 20 1 21 3.652 Mark Baldwin: 16 62 46 9 55 3.548 Nigel Garrad: 1 3 2 0 2 2.667 Tony Abson: 6 20 7 2 9 1.800 Mike Hintz: 2 7 2 1 3 1.714 Kevin Young: 1 5 2 0 2 1.600 Chris Hunt: 2 6 2 0 2 1.333 Adrian Squirrell: 1 4 1 0 1 1.000 Chris Cole: 5 11 1 1 2 0.727 Rob Price: 1 4 0 0 0 0.000 Dave Gentry 1 1 0 0 0 0.000 Glen Ratcliffe: 1 1 0 0 0 0.000 Robert Watt: 1 1 0 0 0 0.000 I wish they'd used a few less riders! More to come...

As I have said on another thread, Stan Stevens was my hero at West Ham and now a good mate with whom to share happy speedway memories. As for VSM, I have subscribed for a number of years now and I do like the new look with the mix of old and not so old material. It is well produced. It has a team of excellent writers (with the exception of the turgid Bob Radford of course). It is so good to see Dave Lanning, Eric Linden and others still in full flow. Keep up the good work, tmc; I'm sorry I misserd you at the film evening. Hopefully we can catrch up at High Beech in February.