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Fred Yates rode for Coventry in 1948 but seems to be forgotten by the club's A-Z of riders although his brother John does get a mention. Here's some site chatter elsewhere about the long-standing mystery.

 

--- In oldtimespeedway@yahoogroups.com, "roobarb36" <roobarb36@...> wrote:

Like Bryan Tungate, I also wonder why Fred Yates is not listed on the Coventry A-Z of riders? Take a look.

http://www.coventrybees.co/beesatoz.php

 

--- In oldtimespeedway@yahoogroups.com, "Bryan Tungate" <bryantungate@> wrote:

My basis for mentioning Fred Yates as a Glasgow Ashfield rider was his inclusion in Peter Morrish book about 1946 - 1964 where he is listed as scoring "0" in 1949 for the Giants. Maybe he stood in as a reserve at somewhere (Fleetwood ????) when someone did not arrive

On the Coventry website "History, Riders A - Z" section Fred is not mentioned despite scoring about 100 League points that 1948 season. John is listed however

Bryan Tungate

 

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Fred Yates rode for Coventry in 1948 but seems to be forgotten by the club's A-Z of riders although his brother John does get a mention. Here's some site chatter elsewhere about the long-standing mystery.

 

--- In oldtimespeedway@yahoogroups.com, "roobarb36" <roobarb36@...> wrote:

Like Bryan Tungate, I also wonder why Fred Yates is not listed on the Coventry A-Z of riders? Take a look.

http://www.coventryb...co/beesatoz.php

 

--- In oldtimespeedway@yahoogroups.com, "Bryan Tungate" <bryantungate@> wrote:

My basis for mentioning Fred Yates as a Glasgow Ashfield rider was his inclusion in Peter Morrish book about 1946 - 1964 where he is listed as scoring "0" in 1949 for the Giants. Maybe he stood in as a reserve at somewhere (Fleetwood ????) when someone did not arrive

On the Coventry website "History, Riders A - Z" section Fred is not mentioned despite scoring about 100 League points that 1948 season. John is listed however

Bryan Tungate

 

JACK KEEN,

ERITH, KENT

 

The name of Fred Yates does come up on the Coventry site. But there does seem to be some sort of link problem because you can also get an 'invalid page' message and need to scramble around various guides on the site to find the riders listing. However when you do get to riders A-Z it would seem while riders are listed you cannot find individual points scoring.

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