Mike Parker

[arnieg]

There were a lot:

 

Liverpool, Stoke, Middlesbough, Bradford (Odsal & Greenfields), Newport, Nelson, Wolves (to 80 - his longest association), Hackney, Crayford, Edinburgh (his last as promoter - 1977-81), Newcastle, Sunderland, Doncaster, Leicester (and also bangers at many tracks)

But are there any others?

 

Did he promote the 1959 Cradley meeting?

 

Did he have an interest in Halifax in 1965 (I thought that this was solely a Reg Fearman track, as it opened long after their falling out in 1963 - but Eric Boothroyd suggests otherwise in a Star article [10 Jan 2009])

 

I believe his last involvement in the sport was as 'advisor' to Chris Roynon;s 1984 Barrow venture

[britmet]

There were a lot:

 

Did he promote the 1959 Cradley meeting?

 

 

Mike Parker didn't promote the 1959 Cradley meeting, but he was there and drove in the Speedcar heats, but he was no doubt involved with the promotion in proposing and then setting up the meeting.

 

The programme tells us that that meeting was promoted by 'Cradley Heath Stadium Ltd' which was the same business that promoted in the subsequent years, the Jephcott family. The details incl'g officials on p2 is pretty much the same in '59 as in the subsequent 1960 progs.