League Riders Championship

[Puma23]

Does anyone have results of League Riders Championship from 1960 ? The winner was Redmond (New Zealand). Maybe someone has final standings with points ?

[andout]

1 Redmond 15, 2 Middleditch 13, 3 Hockaday 13, 4 Robinson 11, 5 Templeton D 10, 6 Lewis & Kitchen 9, 8 Brown & Hole 8, 10 Morton & Roper 5, 12 Reeves 4, 13 Day 3, 14 Featherby 1, 15 Strachan & Cox 0

Reserves: Eadon & Gilbertson 3 each

Edited August 26, 2010 by andout

[Puma23]

Thx. andout

 

Let me know venue and date, please

[BOBBATH]

I know it was at Harringay and the first PLRC-was anyone here actually in attendance??-I think Reg Reeves won the following year altho again Redmond was the outstanding rider.

[BL65]

The first Provincial League Riders' Championship Final (described on the cover of the meeting programme as the Final Round of the Provincial Riders' International Championship, and on the inside pages as the Final of the Provincial Riders' Individual Championship) was held on 24th September 1960 at Cradley Heath. The winner was Trevor Redmond.

 

The following year the meeting was held at Harringay, on 16th September 1961 - the winner was Reg Reeves.

[Dave Jones]

The first Provincial League Riders' Championship Final (described on the cover of the meeting programme as the Final Round of the Provincial Riders' International Championship, and on the inside pages as the Final of the Provincial Riders' Individual Championship) was held on 24th September 1960 at Cradley Heath. The winner was Trevor Redmond.

 

The following year the meeting was held at Harringay, on 16th September 1961 - the winner was Reg Reeves.

 

And if I remember correctly Trevor Redmond snapped a chain in one race, which cost him the title that year.

[andout]

OFFICIALLY since my compatriot BOBBATH got it wrong it was at Cradley and on the date as stated by Guernsey.

 

And yes BOBBATH I was at the Harringay for that one and for the first Internationale as well.

 

I was a young-un though!

Edited August 27, 2010 by andout

[Puma23]

andout can you let me know name the riders and clubs which they ate represented ? I am too young to know the riders

[chunky]

Trevor Redmond (Bristol)

Ken Middleditch (Poole)

Eric Hockaday (Rayleigh)

Tony Robinson (Sheffield)

Doug Templeton (Edinburgh)

Tony Lewis (Poole)

Jack Kitchen (Sheffield)

Ivor Brown (Yarmouth)

Wal Morton (Liverpool)

Johnnie Hole (Bristol)

Tommy Roper (Bradford)

Reg Reeves (Rayleigh)

Ray Day (Bradford)

Clive Featherby (Cradley Heath)

Norman Strachan (Poole)

Cliff Cox (Bristol)

Eric Eadon (Cradley Heath)

Ross Gilbertson (Poole)

 

Steve

 

 

[britmet]

We've had this topic on here before. I attended all 5 PLRCs, and the favourite for the first was local Cradley hero Harry Bastable. Harry had been nigh on unbeatable since his return to Cradley from NL Leicester. However he'd already booked a foreign holiday and it was impossible to find a flight for him to get back for the league's newly-devised big night.

 

Cradley had been selected for the initial Championship because a) it was a Saturday track, (high attendance ensured from travelling fans,) it was in the Midlands (central for a league with teams at the extremes of Edinburgh and Bristol, c) it was considered a 'fair' circuit for riders, (it had been built modelled on Wembley: 367yds v 378yds,). Consequently, to 'spread it around', the next two PLRCs were to be in the South, (Harringay,) then the North, (Belle Vue,)in turn .

 

No doubt the ability to take in the Zoological Gardens and make it a full family day out, topped with a fireworks display that the likes of most of us had never before seen, ensured the that the North retained the big event thru into the next decade (as the BLRC.) On this day if no other dedicated speedway fans took along granny and the kids,(as indeed did we later in the '60s at BLRCs,)

 

Yes, I'm sure the Cradley programme header was mis-print. Ex-Wembley Lion Trevor Redmond obviously liked the track similarity and sailed thru the mtg in 1960: he was doing the same in 1961 until that chain snapped. I reckon he'd burnt himself out thru '62 trying desparately to make Neath a going concern: he was promoter, rider and general factotum there, as well as running St Austell and Stocks at Newton Abbott. He was the only rider to appear in all 5 PLRCs if I remember correcty, representing 5 different clubs, Bristol, W'ton, Neath, St.Austell & Glasgow.