Post Ww2 Speedway Journalists

[Guest]

In the immediate post-war era up to about 1952 we had many speedway magazines to choose from. Among them were 'Speedway News', 'Speedway Gazette', 'Speedway World', 'Speedway Reporter,' 'The Broadsider', 'Speedway Echo', 'Speedway', 'Monthly Speedway World', 'Monthly Speedway Reporter'. In the late 1940s going into the early 1950s they were 'essential reading.'

Besides asking if anyone has any memories of these publications, does anyone remember the writers who used to provide the copy for them?

Here's a few names to conjour with: Basil Storey, Tom Morgan, John Wick, Peter Arnold, Eric Linden, Len Steed, Sammy Samuels, Eric Linden, Cyril J Hart, Len Went, Frank MacLean, Howard Jacobi.

Sadly, all this is just a recollection of better times for speedway - an era when it was very much a mainstream sport.

Edited February 21, 2017 by Guest

[BL65]

In the immediate post-war era up to about 1952 we had many speedway magazines to choose from. Among them were 'Speedway News', 'Speedway Gazette', 'Speedway World', 'Speedway Reporter,' 'The Broadsider', 'Speedway Echo', 'Speedway', 'Monthly Speedway World', 'Monthly Speedway Reporter'. In the late 1940s going into the early 1950s they were 'essential reading.'

Besides asking if anyone has any memories of these publications, does anyone remember the writers who used to provide the copy for them?

Here's a few names to conjour with: Basil Storey, Tom Morgan, John Wick, Peter Arnold, Eric Linden, Len Steed, Sammy Samuels, Eric Linden, Cyril J Hart, Len Went, Frank MacLean, Howard Jacobi.

Sadly, all this is just a recollection of better times for speedway - an era when it was very much a mainstream sport.

They were indeed essential reading in those pre social media days. I also have copies of Track News Weekly Illustrated and On The Track from that era.

[norbold]

Here's a few names to conjour with: Basil Storey, Tom Morgan, John Wick, Peter Arnold, Eric Linden, Len Steed, Sammy Samuels, Eric Linden, Cyril J Hart, Len Went, Frank MacLean, Howard Jacobi.

Good to see Eric Linden getting mentioned twice, but you've left out Angus Kix, James Oldfield and Danny Carter.....

[Guest]

Good to see Eric Linden getting mentioned twice, but you've left out Angus Kix, James Oldfield and Danny Carter.....

 

Thanks for the comment. I will amend original Post. The names given are all bona-fide journalists. The names left out - as well we know - were not REAL journalists. I checked that fact with former BSF members speedyguy and Old Don!