iris123 Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 Nice on BL65 I thought if anyone could answer it, it would be you Tbh i guess the Newcastle link put me and others off. I did look with no luck at pre- war Newcastle results. Expecting him to be a rookie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sotonian Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 18 hours ago, waiheke1 said: Pretty original at belle vue: PC - Peter Collins Mort/Mighty Mort: Chris Morton Jimmy Mac: Jimmy McMillan The Racing Car: Peter Carr Carl "Bye Bye" Blackbird Barry "Baz" Ayres And perhaps the only one with a hint of creativity: Smudger and foxy/foxy? - Andy Smith Lesser known was Ken 'Pubic' Eyre 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatface Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 One of those areas in which the yanks do it so much better than us.... I give you.... "Cowboy" Cook "Sudden" Sam "Showtime" Bobby Ott As opposed to...erm... Havvy Woffy Wiggy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcatdiary Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 5 minutes ago, falcace said: One of those areas in which the yanks do it so much better than us.... I give you.... "Cowboy" Cook "Sudden" Sam "Showtime" Bobby Ott As opposed to...erm... Havvy Woffy Wiggy Havvy the too was how he was known at Peterborough, because after a crap meeting he always said it was too wet, too dry, too slick or too grippy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lefty Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 23 minutes ago, falcace said: One of those areas in which the yanks do it so much better than us.... I give you.... "Cowboy" Cook "Sudden" Sam "Showtime" Bobby Ott As opposed to...erm... Havvy Woffy Wiggy Mike 'The Professor' Bast Keith 'Snakeman' Larsen Robert 'Kid' Curry Vance 'The Green Hornet' Felicio 'Flying' Mike Faria 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midland Red Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 On 6/20/2022 at 10:10 AM, BL65 said: 1928 Middlesbrough programmes listed him as David 'Onanoff' Johnson (no 'd' in onanoff). He had a few falls, but also recorded some heat wins during a brief career. David Johnson appeared at Middlesbrough in 1928 to 1930, Whitley Bay, Gosforth, Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1929 and York in 1931. He rode as reserve for York in a National Trophy match at Leicester Super in 1931, falling in his first race and scoring one point from two other rides. I had a browse through the British Newspaper Archives, and there are a handful of articles which include the name “Onanoff” Johnson, together with one which refers to him as David “On and off” Johnson, leading Middlesbrough star and their most daredevil rider, who had completed the speedway season unscathed, only to badly break his leg playing football. I noted other nicknames in the few articles I found… Riskit Riley Broadside Burton Skid Skinner - which reminded me of Skid Pitcher! Smoky Stratton Dare-devil Beckett Broncho Dixon and a couple of more well-known ones… Sprouts Elder (James Lloyd Elder) Buster Frogley (Arthur Robert Frogley) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sotonian Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 37 minutes ago, falcace said: One of those areas in which the yanks do it so much better than us.... I give you.... "Cowboy" Cook "Sudden" Sam "Showtime" Bobby Ott As opposed to...erm... Havvy Woffy Wiggy Donny "Too Tall" Odom was a bit naff though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 7 hours ago, Sotonian said: Donny "Too Tall" Odom was a bit naff though. As was Buddy "The Bud Man" Robinson... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) But not all US nicknames were great 'Lammy' Lamoreaux although i seem to recall he was knwn as 'the Frenchman' or maybe 'Frenchie' at first due to his surname. So maybe the 'Lammy' name came from his time in the UK Edited June 22, 2022 by iris123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff100 Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 Glamour boy " lou sansom blond bombshell "reg wilson king of crash" chris blythe Wild man ," vic londsdale Fiery aussie " mal mackay Early comets i seem to remember Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PotteringAround Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 30 minutes ago, geoff100 said: blond bombshell "reg wilson king of crash" chris blythe Surely The Blond Bombshell was Graham Warren, and The King of Crash was Phil Bishop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff100 Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 1 hour ago, PotteringAround said: Surely The Blond Bombshell was Graham Warren, and The King of Crash was Phil Bishop. Perhaps copied by bill carman early 1970 mike man at derwent park Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBBATH Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 According to Dave Lanning-think he made them up- "The Dockland pearl" (Malcolm Simmons) and "Anchor" Norman Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 I think Dave Lanning made up lots of stuff in his columns that were never taken on by others Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 17 minutes ago, iris123 said: I think Dave Lanning made up lots of stuff in his columns that were never taken on by others Yeah, he came up with a bunch of nicknames and monikers - usually alliterative - just for effect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunky Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 3 hours ago, PotteringAround said: Surely The Blond Bombshell was Graham Warren, and The King of Crash was Phil Bishop. Definitely... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 3 hours ago, BOBBATH said: According to Dave Lanning-think he made them up- "The Dockland pearl" (Malcolm Simmons) and "Anchor" Norman Hunter And Stan "the man" Stevens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBBATH Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 I miss Dave Lanning-wot a showman!! Thinking here of the 1965 Hammers when he used to write the programme notes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted June 23, 2022 Report Share Posted June 23, 2022 5 hours ago, BOBBATH said: I miss Dave Lanning-wot a showman!! Thinking here of the 1965 Hammers when he used to write the programme notes He was good at Cowley in 1972 "Let Battle Commence" as well as for a few years down at Arlington. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted June 23, 2022 Report Share Posted June 23, 2022 Just my opinion of course but Dave Lanning was better on the mic than on paper. Reading back, most of his stuff is quite painful to read 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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