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13 hours ago, chunky said:

Doing a little research, and it seems Basil quite a name in the National League Division Three. In 1947, he was the backbone of the Eastbourne team, and won both the Supporters Cup and a qualifying round of the British Riders Championship. He then switched to Tamworth, where he was a heat leader, and then moved to Aldershot where he was a star for several years. He won the 1950 Easter Cup at Tongham against the likes of Jack Instead, Pat Flanagan, and Vic Gooden.

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Easy to miss Basil as he was overshadowed by Trevor Redmond in 1950 & 51 and by Geoff Mardon in 51 (again).

Sadly on the way down in 52 he was still a heat leader for us despite riding for a side obviously on the way out.

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Must admit I did do a search and came across a page of cigarette cards with Basil and quite a few I have no memory of,plus a few well known names,including a sporty  Briggo!!

I can’t ever remember seeing the cigarette card collection before.So it is always good to come across a surprise or two

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