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Research in regard to The Cundy Trophy, a classic at West Ham in speedway's golden period. http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/index.cgi Any help in regard to winners and years would be appreciated. Thanks.

QUOTE (Robbie B @ Jun 4 2009, 06:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So that's why there were two winners in 1946. Do you require the Spring Classic and Internationale winners as well? LONDON SPEEDWAYS is interested in all major championships staged at all the London tracks from 1928 - that's those with a reasonable lifespan. Many thanks for the offer. http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/index.cgi

QUOTE (Robbie B @ Jun 4 2009, 01:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The full list of Laurels winners are (riders in BOLD were Wimbledon riders at the time of winning the title) 1946 Tomy Price & Bob Wells (I don't know why there was joint winners, before I was born. Someone on the BSF might know) I have just checked on the Speedway Researcher site. In 1946 the event was a best pairs meeting - all others were individual championships.

QUOTE (Robbie B @ Jun 4 2009, 01:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The full list of Laurels winners are (riders in BOLD were Wimbledon riders at the time of winning the title) 1939 Wilbur Lamoreaux 1946 Tomy Price & Bob Wells (I don't know why there was joint winners, before I was born. Someone on the BSF might know) 1947 Vic Duggan 1948 Jack Parker 1949 - 1950 not held 1951 Aub Lawson 1952 Ronnie Moore 1953 Jack Young 1954 Ron How 1955 Ronnie Moore 1956 Ronnie Moore 1957 Per Olaf Soederman 1958 not held 1959 Ken McKinlay 1960 Ronnie Moore 1961 Barry Briggs 1962 Ove Fundin 1963 Barry Briggs 1964 Bjorn Knutsson 1965 Barry Briggs 1966 Nigel Boocock 1967 Ray Wilson 1968 Barry Briggs 1969 Trevor Hedge 1970 Ray Wilson 1971 Ole Olsen 1972 Ole Olsen 1973 Ole Olsen 1974 Dave Jessup 1975 Tommy Jansson 1976 Martin Ashby 1977 Colin Richardson 1978 John Davis 1979 Bruce Penhall 1980 Larry Ross 1981 John Davis 1982 Malcolmm Simmons 1983 Hans Nielsen 1984 not held 1985 Neil Middleditch 1986 Nigel Sparshott 1987 Dave Mullett 1988 Steve Schofield 1989 Todd Wiltshire 1990 not held 1991 Hans Nielsen 1992 - 2002 not held 2003 Wayne Barrett 2004 not held (rained off two times) 2005 Mark Burrows I witnessed some great Laurels meeting in the past. Many thanks. This has been transferred to the LONDON SPEEDWAYS site.

Research in regard to The Laurels, a classic at Wimbledon in its National League and British League era - probably equal to the London Riders Championship, is taking place on: http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/index.cgi Any help in regard to winners and years would be appreciated. Thanks.

JIM CHALKLEY, Bradford, Wolverhampton, 1960s.

Currently the subject of debate on http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway is claims by pioneer Stamford Bridge and Crystal Palace rider Bill Bragg that he did not receive recognition for his role in the introduction of the JAP speedway engine.

QUOTE (Robbie B @ May 23 2009, 04:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Crayford Teams from Speedway Star magazines 1970 Archie Wilkinson 9.55 Tony Childs 7.97 George Davenport 7.00 Derek Timms 5.19 Mick Steel 4.98 Tony Armstrong 4.55 Chris Hawkins 4.51 Colin Cook 4.00 Judd Drew 3.91 Ian Spencer 2.00 Cyril Hathaway 0.00 League & Cup matches 1975 Laurie Etheridge 9.74 Alan Sage 8.51 Trevor Barnwell 7.73 Pete Wigley 6.26 Bob Young 5.86 Les Ott 5.78 Alan Johns 5.68 George Barclay 5.34 Dave Shepherd 4.92 Bill Archer 4.11 Roy Barwick 3.71 Richard Wills 2.00 Terry Barclay 0.00 Dave Howard 0.00 League & Cup matches 1982 Barry Thomas 8.75 Trevor Banks 7.62 Mike Spinks 6.83 Alan Sage 6.48 Alan Mogridge 5.96 Laurie Etheridge 5.67 Paul Bosley 5.22 Mick Pither 5.02 Trevor Barnwell 3.53 Chris Tritton 3.23 Andy Galvin 2.40 Keith Cornell 0.00 Richard Newnham 0.00 League & Cup matches That's all the Crayford teams covered. Wonderful. Many thanks. Some great old favourites in both sets of teams. I appreciate your hard work in helping me.

QUOTE (Robbie B @ May 23 2009, 01:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> From the 1969 & 1970 BSPA Handbook, and also speedway yearbooks 1977 - 1982 1968 Archie Wilkinson 11.33 Mick Handley 10.39 Tony Childs 7.83 Derek Timms 6.80 Colin Clark 6.27 Dai Evans 6.12 Geoff Ambrose 6.03 Stuart Riley 5.23 Tony Armstrong 4.31 Dave Parry 2.67 Donovan Price 2.67 Pete Gay 0.00 1969 Geoff Ambrose 10.16 Derek Timms 8.92 Archie Wilkinson 8.64 Tony Childs 8.35 Chris Harrison 6.62 Mick Steel 6.62 Colin Cook 6.27 Tony Armstrong 5.38 Judd Drew 4.33 Dai Evans 2.67 Stuart Riley 1.60 1976 Laurie Theridge 9.96 Alan Sage 8.83 Mike Broadbank 7.29 Pete Wigley 7.22 Alan Johns 6.45 Trevor Barnwell 5.71 Bill Archer 5.69 Richard Davey 4.71 Gary Spencer 4.11 John Hooper 3.09 Dave Shepherd 2.87 Colin Archer 2.00 Roy Barwick 1.33 1977 Laurie Etheridge 9.63 Alan Sage 8.77 Colin Gooddy 8.58 Vic Harding 8.09 Jack Bibby 6.40 Alan Johns 5.57 Richard Davey 5.80 John Hooper 4.61 Mike Besent 4.33 Garry May 3.76 Dingle Brown 2.00 1978 Laurie Etheridge 9.32 Alan Sage 8.51 Garry May 8.00 Alan Johns 6.31 Tony Featherstone 5.21 Richard Davey 5.16 Pete Wigley 5.14 Tony Garard 4.00 John Hooper 4.33 Jack Bibby 3.60 Nigel Sparshott 1.33 1979 Steve Naylor 8.96 Laurie Etheridge 8.14 Alan Sage 7.95 * Paul Woods 7.68 Alan Johns 4.57 Richard Davey 4.43 Paul Gilbert 3.47 Paul Hollingsbee 3.37 John Hooper 3.21 Nike Pither 3.00 Jack Bibby 0.62 Pete Wigley 0.00 * Transferred during the season from Canterbury 1980 Paul Woods 10.55 Steve Naylor 8.28 Tony Brooks 8.00 Les Rumsey 7.89 Alan Sage 6.85 Laurie Etheridge 6.02 Mike Pither 5.33 Alan Johns 5.00 Paul Hollingsbee 4.80 Paul Gilbert 3.68 Trevor Barnwell 3.50 Jack Bibby 3.50 Chris Tritton 0.00 1981 Barry Thomas 9.10 Alan Sage 7.97 Laurie Etheridge 6.94 Mike Pither 6.05 Trevor Barnwell 5.78 Paul Hollingsbee 5.00 Keith Pritchard 4.29 * Michael Spinks 4.84 Paul Bosley 2.24 Ian Fletcher 1.00 Tony Brooks 0.00 Keith Cornell 0.00 * Transferred during the season from Boston 1983 Barry Thomas 9.69 Paul Bosley 7.88 Kevin Teager 7.56 Andy Galvin 6.72 Alan Sage 6.63 Alan Mogridge 6.60 Trevor Banks 6.46 Mark Terry 5.14 League & Cup matches - from the history of defunt Pocket Size History of speedway tracks by speedaway This book list all the Crayford rdiers 1968 - 83 with the years of riding for the club, and also the overall points and CMA total for Crayford. Do you want me type out their overall Crayford caereer stats ? I have to go through my speedway stars for 1970, 1975 & 1982 will take a couple of days, maybe. Hope this helps. Thanks very much. All that was needed was the team squads for the various seasons that Crayford operated. The LONDON SPEEDWAYS site has a section for the various seasons detailing each club's rider list. It's time consuming but well worth the effort. This is really appreciated.

Can anyone help in regard to the team squads for Crayford? It would be appreciated, if they are known, for all riders involved during a season as team members to be named- not just a cut-off qualification of six matches for a CMA. We don't want there to be any forgotten men. Thanks. http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/index.cgi

QUOTE (Robbie B @ May 18 2009, 10:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Your right Norbold while he was racing for the Leicester 'Lions' My post was regarding the '83 LRC, forgot the '75 one. I have a good excuse, I didn't start going to speedway until 1976 (only 50 lines for me) Wasn't the first LRC won by Dave Jessup at Romford the London OPEN Championship?

Burrows is also just 10 years short of equaling Wal Morton's 35 years as a rider - and I think Jimmy Squibb may have bettered that. If Burrows does keep going to emulate their longevity it would mean that he'll still be riding in 2019!!

There is an updating on winners for the Tom Farndon Memorial Trophy. It doesn't seem to appear in any record books. All that is known is Jack Milne was first winner in 1936, Peter Craven in 1959, and in the early 1960s Ronnie Moore and Jack Young won the title. http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/index.cgi

The only Hull track I ever visited was the old Hedon Stadium about 1959 or 1960. I went there with the rider Pete Rogers (Wimbledon and Oxford junior) who was keen on trying to promote there. We went, we saw but never conquered...too much work needed, too little financial backing. My old pal Alf Webster was an original Hull rider in the 1940s. Before riding speedway, Alf was West Ham star Eric Chitty's mechanic.

I cannot find the years but I am certain that in the post-war seasons when I went to New Cross, it always seemed that Ron Johnson was the winner. http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/index.cgi

Looking for winners of the New Cross-staged 'Tom Farndon Memorial Trophy' on http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/index.cgi Only known winner is Peter Craven (Belle Vue) in either 1960 or 1961. I am certain that Ron Johnson (NX and Australia) must have won it a few times.

What about Eastbourne?

The yahoo system has introduced a new viewing facility for photos which is now being utilised on http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway

For those interested in old-time photos, there are now 122 albums (more than 1,000 photos) to be found on http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway

Phil Rising is 'the guv'nor' at 'Speedway Star' and its managing editor. Paul Parrish moved into TV journalism.

If you want to have a browse over the rest of the Easter Holiday, these might be worth a look (one not strictly speedway but there's a lot of speedway riders involved): http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/index.cgi http://midgetcarpanorama.proboards.com/index.cgi

A photo of the book cover is in the photo album 'Ireland and Speedway' in http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway

By JOHN HYAM A HISTORY OF SPEEDWAY: THE DUBLIN EXPERIENCE Author: George P Kearns 220 pages: fully illustrated ISBN: 1-906027-33-1 Euros 20 plus Euros five post and packing, payment by cheque, postal or money order in favour George P Kearns. Or by electronic transfer. Email georgemamie@eircom.net for instructions From: George P Kearns, 22 Griffith Parade, Finglas East, Dublin 11, Republic of Ireland. THE book records most of the speedway meetings that have taken place in the Republic of Ireland. There are also details of most of the riders who have taken part in Irish speedway meetings. But author George Kearns admits some details are not given. He explains: “The Irish Newspaper Industry was hit by a strike between July 11 and the end of August, 1952. As the Irish newspapers were my only source of information for that period, I dare say I missed a couple of meetings.”
 Speedway arrived Dublin in 1928 at the new Harold’s Cross Greyhound Stadium but there is evidence that that motorcle races took place on a dirt track in Dublin on a dirt track in 1902.
 There were three meetings at Harold’s Cross Stadium, then speedway disappeared until a revival took place in 1948 at Santry Stadium.
 Speedway on a higher level started in 1950 at Shelbourne Park Greyhound Stadium and this venue was soon rated as Dublin’s most popular race track. It was there that the 17-year-old New Zealander Ronnie Moore, won the hearts of every speedway goer in Ireland. Later in 1950, Chapelizod Stadium opened and all three venues were in active until speedway was finally ousted by midget car racing. The last major speedway of the decade was at Shelbourne Park on July 4, 1954.
 There was a mini-revival at Shelbourne Park in 1961 when three meetinsg took place, then the sport disappeared again until 1970 when Shelbourne Park operated for two seasons. While there was no competitive racing in the 1960s, Irish riders practiced on a trotting track in Portmarnock. Fans were welcome free of charge at these training sessions. Then, in an attempt to revive the sport in Ireland a meeting took place on August 30, 1986, but no more took place.
 
 Dublin also lays claim to staging one of the first meetings on a dirt track at Ashtown on October 18 1902. Ashtown was half-a-mile to the lap and average speeds were less than 30mph. There were two main events. A 10-mile handicap won by R W Stevens from H A Huet and M Thomas. Stevens and Huet also took the first two place in a one-mile scratch race with JJ Cahill coming third. Although mainly covering the sport at Shelbourne Park in the Republic of Ireland in the 1950s, there is such a strong Wimbledon link to the book its like recapturing the great Dons’ riders of that period. This is because then Wimbledon promoter Ronnie Greene was also at the helm at Shelbourne Park. And the majority of the riders who raced there were also members of his Wimbledon team. The doubling up method was simple and effective: riders went to Ireland by ferry on a Saturday, raced in Ireland on a Sunday afternoon, then went back for the Monday night racing at Plough Lane. The book is essentially a chronological record of the few post-war seasons when there was speedway in Ireland. The flavour is there, and besides Shelbourne Park, details of two other Dublin tracks of the period - Santry and Chapleizoid are covered (and there’s Wimbledon rider involvement at these venues). For its historical value, I commend the work.

I am not into these aliases!!! Why should anyone want to hide their identity under one...?

I find this an offensive comment about anyone who is prepared to race a speedway bike. In any case, Dean Felton has a long way to better Wal Morton whose career spanned the years from 1932 until 1965. Wal's currently the subject of a rather heated debate on http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/oldtimespeedway and most of the comments are 'singing his praises'. And rightly so IMO. Good luck to Dean Felton in his seeming bid to be an active speedway rider for 33 years.