tigerowl Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Sorry for the shameless plug and sincere apologies if it breaches any site rules but I thought this may be of interest to users of this particular section of the board. My name is Matt Jackson and I was the co author of Owlerton Legends with Paul Rickett from the Speedway Star. For the past few years I have been working with a statistician called Hugh Vass to build a complete record of British League riders to have appeared in post-war speedway. At the time of writing there are over 3800 riders who have ridden in a league or cup match since 1946 and this would be too many to fit into one publication. We have decided to split the work into volumes with the deciding factor being the decade in which the rider made his or her league debut. The first issue covers all the 583 riders who made their post-war debuts in the 1940s and includes household names like Jack Parker, Vic Duggan and Freddie Williams down to Charlie Bourdon who had a career with Bristol lasting just four laps. Each rider has a biographical pen picture and full career statistics including Calculated Match Averages. The disc is also packed with superb photographs from the John Somerville Collection. The work, which runs to almost 400 pages, has been incorporated onto CD rather than in book form in order to reduce costs and with an eye on the environmental impact of book production. It is priced at just £9.99 including free postage and full details can be obtained at the website www.speedwayatoz.co.uk Cheers Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevH Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Matt, can you give us any idea when further volumes of this can be expected please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerowl Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 I'm working on the 1950s at the moment and that will be done for next season. The 1960s and 1970s will follow after that. There's loads of work involved in each disc and the stats for the 40s has been a bit of a nightmare to do. There are over 250 portrait shots of the riders and I hope people will think it's a good buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBBATH Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 Matt-does it include year of birth and death(where applicable) for each rider? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerowl Posted August 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 It does. I have managed to get about 80% of all the dates and places of birth by contacting riders' and their families and using the Public Records Office in London. Some have been too obscure to find however. If anyone would like me to send a few sample pages via e-mail I will be happy to do so. My e-mail is matt@vmcnjackson.wanadoo.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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