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HOCKADAY, Eric Aldershot California Coventry Cradley Heath Exeter Leicester Rayleigh Rye House Sheffield Stoke

MORTON, Wal, 1946-64 Glasgow (White City) Harringay Norwich Wimbledon Newcastle West Ham Bradford (Odsal) Ipswich Liverpool Middlesbrough Hackney

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Steve Johnston's had nine clubs: Sheffield, Long Eaton, Ipswich, Oxford, Belle Vue, Swindon, Wolves, Arena Essex, and Coventry.

George Major started at Southern Area League side Aldershot in the late-50s.

Steve One of the Rochdale bibs belonged to Paul Tyrer, the other was worn by various riders. The Colts one I believe was Ken Eyre's. Not getting rid of them either. Sorry.

Got two Rochdale racejackets and a Belle Vue Colts' one.

1962: 14 matches, 24 points.

Nick Nicholls rode for Coventry from 1955 to 1961. He began racing at Brafield in 1954.

EADON, Tony 1954 1M 0PTS 0.00 Brafield, Southern Area League 1955 2M 5PTS 2.50 Brafield, Southern Area League 1956 10M 31PTS 3.10 Southern Rovers, Southern Area League 1957 2M 2PTS 1.00 Rayleigh, Southern Area League 1959 5M 5PTS 1.00 Coventry Reserves 1960 1M 1PTS 1.00 Div 2, Edinburgh 1960 14M 29PTS 2.07 Div 2, Cradley Heath 1961 15M 52PTS 3.46 Div 2, Cradley Heath 1962 4M 5PTS 1.25 Div 2, Leicester 1963 11M 26PTS 2.36 Div 2, Long Eaton Began racing at Coventry, coming to the fore in the Southern Rovers line-up of ’56. He later returned to second-halfing at Coventry after the SAL shutdown. Brother of Eric Eadon.

Same here - I typed that format down from memory. The best format ever. Incidentally, I still believe it was a format introduced in the late sixties.

Six and sevens were both reserves and had three programmed rides each. One to five had four. Ht 1 - 1,2,1,2 Ht 2 - 6,7,6,7 Ht 3 - 5,4,5,4 Ht 4 - 3,6,3,7 Ht 5 - 5,4,1,2 Ht 6 - 1,2,3,6 Ht 7 - 3,6,5,4 Ht 8 - 2,7,2,7 Ht 9 - 5,4,3,6 Ht 10 - 1,2,5,4 Ht 11 - 3,7,1,2 Ht 12 - 1,4,3,5 Ht 13 - 3,5,1,4

I think the 13-heat format was slightly tinkered with around 1968, staying the same after that until its sad demise in 1987.

Isn't Gay Have-a-look a bit that way!

Just not the sort of personalities i'd like to read about.

Watching paint dry is boring. It's as bad as watching grass grow.

Then can we have one on paint drying?

I knew i'd find it... Just checked in the '77 yearbook, page 224, and discovered that Mike Fullerton was holder of Paisley track record. He clocked his time - 74.2 - on 28.8.76. The Paisley circuit was 391 metres. Anything else I can assist you with, Kev...

The 1977 yearbook - that should give you the answer.

Didn't Henka Gustafsson get done for drink driving when he rode for the Aces? What is it with Swedes, Belle Vue and drink?

Ellesmere Port Unknown 2 - Steve Hartley (1976)

DEBBAGE, John 1958 2 8 4.00 Norwich Reserves 1959 1 0 0.00 Div 1, Norwich 1959 5 11 2.20 Norwich Reserves 1959 7 28 4.00 Yarmouth, Southern Area League 1960 1 4 4.00 Div 1, Norwich 1960 12 38 3.16 Div 2, Yarmouth 1961 15 29 1.93 Div 1, Norwich 1962 21 79 3.76 Div 1, Norwich 1963 23 49 2.13 Div 1, Norwich 1964 3 1 0.33 Div 1, Norwich 1964 9 17 1.88 Div 1, Swindon Upto 1964 only A protégé of Derek Strutt, Debbage first rode speedway in the January of 1958 at the age of 21, showing impressive form despite his limited experience. He had his first team place on a regular basis when Norwich loaned him to Yarmouth.

Jack Kitchen was the brother-in-law of Dick Fisher (I think). Pretty sure both passed away in the 80s.

Some self promoting going on here, I think.

Totally agree with you there. Tigerbrandcoffee.