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WITW! Mind the lamp post! WITW! Can anyone answer this query please? --- In http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway "weewillie34" <weewillie34@...> wrote: > > Bos Blomfield was in the Overseas team beaten 32-19 at West Ham on April 21 1931 by a team of English riders who had toured New Zealand. Blomfield scored four points. I can find no other references to him anywhere. What club did he ride for and what country did he come from? >

Nonsense! Not if you saw Ola Jordan dancing.

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I think you will find that the reason the stadium was sold was because it had become so old it was a more economical to demolish and sell the land than to refurbish a place where, over the post war years, people increasingly stayed away from the activities covered there. A West Ham page can be found on http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/index.cgi

As I mentioned in a previous Post I first went to West Ham in April 1954. What a great place it was. Then over the years until the early 1960s, I was a regular at Custom House for both speedway and stock car racing. Happy days!

No doubt about the interviewer/commentator being John Stapleton - his name is mentioned with the clip.! I first went to West Ham in April 1954 - on an assignment for the long-gone 'Speedway Gazette.' Doug Falby (pre-war business secretary to promoter Arthur 'Westy' Westwood) was then the Gazette's owner-editor.

On the discussion group http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/index.cgi the subject of former 1937 Wimbledon's American speedway rider Miny Waln's activities after he quit from the bikes is being researched. He quit speedway in 1938 but there is indication that in the USA he turned his attention to both building and racing midget cars from 1939. WITW! Mind the lamp post. WITW!

Ray Terry? West Ham junior rider of the 1950s maybe?

Reg Lambourne...a great old perfromer especially in the immediate psot-war years. Sheffield (?), Wigan, Bristol, Swindon, were among his tracks.

I think you will find that Peter Lloyd was at Newcastle in 1946. He was then 17 years old and the youngest rider in the sport at that time (I think ) He was still active in the Provincial League in the early 1960s with Poole possibly being his last track.

Here's more data just posted regarding Jim Gutteridge at New Cross: --- In oldtimespeedway@yahoogroups.com, "beatagain24" <beatagain24@...> wrote: > > Two more dates found on Speedway Researcher for Jim Gutteridge. May 6 - result Mike Erskine, Hal Collins, Jim Gutteridge, Syd Farndon. June 24 - results Hal Collins, Pat Lish, Syd Farndon, Jim Gutteridge.

Here's two items on the subject of Jim Gutteridge: --- In oldtimespeedway@yahoogroups.com, "beatagain24" <beatagain24@...> wrote: I have looked on Speedway Researcher and can only find these results for Jim Gutteridge riding at New Cross in 1936. On April 8 he was in a junior race - result was Fred Leavis, Syd Farndon, Jim Gutteridge, Hal Collins. Then on May 27 Reserves race was Hal Collins, Jack Tidbury, Syd Farndon (fell), Jim Gutteridge (fell). There may be more results for Jim but the site does not always give second half events. I hope this helps about the rider. --- In oldtimespeedway@yahoogroups.com, "WebbT" <shaleway6980@> wrote: Jim Gutteridge rode in the second halves at New Cross from April 1936, I cannot trace him in league or NT matches in that year..There was a sports writer by the same surname , Daily Express i think, may be a relation Tony

I thought I would tempt you back! I think you have some knowledge about New Cross? What's the background to jJim Gutteridge's spell with the Rangers then?

I wait with baited breath...

Thanks for all the replies, but at the moment this quest remains ongoing.

I have had a message from Bob Andrewws in New Zealand to advise that Jim Gutteridge was at New Cross in 1936. A further contact says that he rode only in second-half events that season.

WITW! Former New Cross rider Jim Gutteridge is currently being researched by http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/index.cgi More information would be appreciated. Thanks. WITW! Watch out for a lamp post!

‘THE VOICE” - latest edition: The 35th Edition of The Voice, the official journal of Friends of Speedway, a non profit making concern which returns all surplus cash back into British speedway racing, is now available. In this issue Sue Towner gives her forthright opinion of speedway's TV commentators, David Telfer provides his final 2009 league table of televised meetings, from best to worst, Charles McKay and Phil “Slider” Hayward comment on several crucial aspects of modern speedway racing and Roy Delaney takes a nostalgic look back at the career of Graham Warren. Editor Stuart Towner presides and reports on the British under 15's championship, sponsored by Friends of Speedway, plus other items of interest from other contributors concerning our favourite sport. To join Friends of Speedway and receive your four quarterly copies of The Voice please send a cheque for £10, made payable to Friends of Speedway, to Stuart Towner at 117 Church Lane, Chessington Surrey KT9 2DP.

Fronm what I have gathered so far, Timmy Joe Sheppard was essentially a flat-track rider and only had limited speedway experience. This was a a track at Lawrenceburg, Indianna, which only staged speedway as a filler event on its mainly falt-track programme. What I cannot understand is why despite his obvious failings against Belle Vue he was not given second-half rides in susbequent meetings at Hackney until his departure for home later in the month. It would seem that Hackney did not do enough invetigation into the rider before they dragged him across the Atlantic. Perhaps they thought the class at Lawrence burg as akin to that on the West Coast from where riders like Scott Autrey & Co had graduated with success to the British League scene. It would seem that after he went home, Timmy Joe created a reasonable impression in subsequent seasons on the USA's east Coast and also in Canada (where her won the 1979 Canadian Championship). At least the way he was apparently mishandled at Hackney did not sour him against speedway racing.

Yes it was versus Belle Vue. He had a good chance to prove himself in one race - he was up against Peter Collins! Tired out and didn't know his home track - Timmy Joe was on a loser from the moment he went on track.

On the site http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway research is taking place in regard to the 19 year old American rider Timmy Joe Sheppard's signing by Hackney in September 1975. Further comment would be welcomed in regard to the suggestion that he was not given a chance to settle down before being plunged into the Hackney side without practice less than 24 hours after arriving in the UK. WITW!! Mind the lamp post!

Lakesdie are giving details of next year's season ticket availability. No word about NEXT YEAR'S London Riders Championship nor an explanation about why this year's proposed championship cancellation has been 'swept under the carpet'!

REMEMBER THIS PROMISE...? Wednesday 22nd April 2009 LONDON'S SPEEDWAY HERITAGE REMEMBERED AND REVIVED
 The Promoters of Lakeside Speedway are delighted to announce that on Friday July 17th the Club will host the London Riders Championship, having received the support and blessing of its traditional custodian, Len Silver.
 The meeting is being revived to celebrate 80 years of League Racing in Britain and to ensure that support is gained for the continuation of top level Speedway in Greater London, once the Arena Essex Raceway succumbs to the plans of the Thames Gateway project.
The day itself will be a celebration of all things London Speedway with a field of riders chosen by fans of the old London clubs and taking to the track in the most iconic of those club’s race jackets, again chosen by the fans.


The sad thing is that Lakeside have still to state there will be no London Riders Championship (after all the ballyhoo about its return earlier in the season) and tell us why. Or is it because Lakeside do not recognise the prestige surrounding this historic event?

I am now convinced that we just imagined that Lakeside Hammers were going to revive the London Riders Championship this season. Or am I p@*$^%g up a lamp post?