More Famous Than The Beatles

[Rob Lee]

A bit of Christmas nostalgia - the following article from 1963 was re-printed in our local newspaper last week:

 

...."The Young Liberals met a man who told them "I doubt if the Beatles would have done as well as I did in my day". He was Jack Parker, the British Speedway champion for seven successive years and now a Leamington insurance broker. He said at one time he received 150 fan letters in one post, and it often took him three quarters of an hour to get from his dressing room to his car........".

 

Fings ain't wot they used to be. Can we get Tai Woffinden to address the next Liberal Party conference ??

 

Or maybe all the moaners on the forum should start writing more fan letters instead.

[Guest]

A bit of Christmas nostalgia - the following article from 1963 was re-printed in our local newspaper last week:

 

...."The Young Liberals met a man who told them "I doubt if the Beatles would have done as well as I did in my day". He was Jack Parker, the British Speedway champion for seven successive years and now a Leamington insurance broker. He said at one time he received 150 fan letters in one post, and it often took him three quarters of an hour to get from his dressing room to his car........".

 

Fings ain't wot they used to be. Can we get Tai Woffinden to address the next Liberal Party conference ??

 

Or maybe all the moaners on the forum should start writing more fan letters instead.

 

That's an extremely interesting comment on Jack Parker. What I did not know was that after his speedway career ended he became an insurance broker. This is the first reference I have seen in that respect. Does anyone know more? I saw Jack Parker ride at the first meeting I attended which was at New Cross in April 1946. Subsequently I admired his undoubted speedway talent over many seasons. He was undoubtedly an all-time speedway great but surprisingly for all his great speedway talent never a world champion.

Edited December 9, 2013 by Guest