norbold Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 Over to you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wessex Wanderer Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 Eric Linden. No one else comes close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBBATH Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 From reading old Speedway magazines I would say Basil Storey-also of course Eric Linden, plus Philip Rising and Paul Parish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 Me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 Eric Linden & John Chaplin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BL65 Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 In no particular order: Eric Linden Basil Storey Tom Morgan Tom and Jim Stenner Peter Oakes Philip Rising Dave Lanning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted June 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 Eric Linden. No one else comes close. I think Angus Kix, Danny Carter and James Oldfield come quite close. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 (edited) Basil Storey was a brilliant writer and IMO far ahead of most of his contemporaries in the 1940s and early 1950s. Besides his role in running the 'Speedway Gazette' (in spare time outside his full working life on the Press Association) Basil was also or many years the speedway correspondent for the 'Daily Express'. After leaving the 'Speedway Gazette' in the mid 1950s, he then wrote for 'Speedway News', and when that folded was for several years a contributor to 'Speedway Star.' My other favourite speedway journalists were Eric Linden, Tom and Jim Stenner. Edited June 27, 2017 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wessex Wanderer Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 I think Angus Kix, Danny Carter and James Oldfield come quite close. Nice one. I enjoyed reading "all" of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 Eric Linden for me. He was always worth reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 A very fine free-lance speedway journalist of the late 1940s-early 1960s was Howard Jacobi who provided material in regard to the Midland tracks for 'Speedway World,' 'Speedway News' and 'Speedway Star.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 A very fine free-lance speedway journalist of the late 1940s-early 1960s was Howard Jacobi who provided material in regard to the Midland tracks for 'Speedway World,' 'Speedway News' and 'Speedway Star.' Actually I can remember reading his Meeting Reports in Speedway Star back in the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 (edited) A very fine free-lance speedway journalist of the late 1940s-early 1960s was Howard Jacobi who provided material in regard to the Midland tracks for 'Speedway World,' 'Speedway News' and 'Speedway Star.' Actually I can remember reading his Meeting Reports in Speedway Star back in the day. Besides his match reports, Howard Jacobi also contributed a weekly column dedicated to speedway happenings at the many Midlands tracks then operating. Another distinguished speedway journalist in the late 1940s-1960s period was Cyril J Hart. He had an excellent writing style that demanded compulsive reading. Cyril over the years is best known for his contributions to 'Speedway World', 'Monthly Speedway World', 'Speedway News' and 'Speedway Gazette'. Away from speedway he was for many years an official with the Speedway Riders Association. Edited June 27, 2017 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BL65 Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 I think Angus Kix, Danny Carter and James Oldfield come quite close. Eric and co always managed to predict the world final winner in the 1960s. In 1966 Eric Eric went for Briggs, Eric James selected Mauger and Eric Danny chose Knutson. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavan Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 Anyone but the biased Paul Burbidge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidney the robin Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 Linden, Oakes,Lanning,Rising , Bott, happy with that lot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 In the 1950s Angus Kix was a great favourite with Speedway Star readers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBBATH Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 I'd forgotten Dave Lanning(RIP) -how could I have done that-going back to 1965-,he had about 2 pages in the Star- I think he made a lot of his "news" up. What amused me was that he would always have foreign riders, e.g. Swedish riders speaking in pidgin English-sort of like Manuel in Fawlty Towers.. For example he would have Knutsson saying something like "I try gate but always hate rain she stop me win"". Anybody got other examples of this pidgin English stuff that Dave did!!!! . Also in my innocence I thought Speedway Star had an army of writers-only many years later did I realise that half of them were Eric Linden!! Also who was Frank Drake the Exeter correspondent-presumably a take off of the name Sir Francis Drake(although the latter was apparently a keen supporter of speedway!!!) God bless 'em all. This is a great thread which I am enjoying very much!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 Tom Morgan was one of the main immediate post-war speedway journalists. He worked full-time for the old 'The People' Sunday newspaper. For some years he also edited for that newspaper their superb annual 'The People Speedway Guide' (or a title similar to that). He was a founder in 1946 with Basil Storey of the 'Speedway Gazette' but ceased with the magazine a couple of years later, then became a regular correspondent for the 'Speedway World' and 'Monthly Speedway World.' Another much respected immediate post-war speedway journalist was Len Steed, who founded and edited for some years the 'Speedway Reporter' and the 'Monthly Speedway Reporter.' His full-time job, as with several speedway magazine editors of that time, was with the Press Association. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted June 28, 2017 Report Share Posted June 28, 2017 There was a Rod Fox (Oxford) who would write in the Oxford Programme...never found out who he really was? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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