A J Hunting

[iris123]

Came across this piece on one of the founding fathers of the sport.

 

[Guest]

I have no data relative to A J Hunting's promotional time in speedway. However - and I am most likely wrong! - I seem to recall reading that he ceased his interest in speedway promoting circa 1932 and opened a toy making factory.

[iris123]

It is mentioned in the video.Have you watched it?

[Guest]

23 hours ago, gustix said:

I have no data relative to A J Hunting's promotional time in speedway. However - and I am most likely wrong! - I seem to recall reading that he ceased his interest in speedway promoting circa 1932 and opened a toy making factory.

 

7 hours ago, iris123 said:

It is mentioned in the video.Have you watched it?

TBH I only briefly watched the start of the video. But I will rectify that omission on my part later today. These days there are so many of these sort of videos on Facebook that I tend to bypass most of them.

Edited February 12, 2020 by Guest

[Guest]

19 hours ago, iris123 said:

It is mentioned in the video.Have you watched it?

I have taken time to watch the video and noted its comments. Most informative IMO.

[iris123]

Yes, a lot of things I had never heard about and a brief glimpse of his brother Frank, who was also involved in his speedway business. Frank was clerk of the course + manager at the Ekka and was also part of the tour of South America in 1930. Was talk of taking Fay Taylour with them, but I don't think she went. Frank was it say's quickly trying to get to grips with the Spanish language and it was going so well he thought he had a chance of being elected President, as they elected a new one every few months, so he said

Edited February 13, 2020 by iris123

[iris123]

Actually there could be a very interesting story behind their name. Not 100% certain, but think they were originally the Schutze brothers. Then during WW1 it was felt Schutze sounded too German and they changed it to a good English variation of the name. A lot of people did the same such as the royal family, plus others like the American ketchup family Heinz cut links with their homeland and stopped talking German. Wimbledon's Gus Kuhn also falsely denied that his family were from Germany. So it wouldn't be unusual.

But I think I have stumbled across some correspondence from Frank stating that although their surname sounds German, their family have absolutely no links with that country as their father emigrated from Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein in 1857, and his grandfather and great grandfather also lived in Lauenburg and at no time were subjects of Germany, but that Lauenburg was part of Denmark at that time and also that his mother was also Danish.

Edited February 13, 2020 by iris123

[iris123]

On ‎2‎/‎13‎/‎2020 at 3:50 PM, iris123 said:

Actually there could be a very interesting story behind their name. Not 100% certain, but think they were originally the Schutze brothers. Then during WW1 it was felt Schutze sounded too German and they changed it to a good English variation of the name. A lot of people did the same such as the royal family, plus others like the American ketchup family Heinz cut links with their homeland and stopped talking German. Wimbledon's Gus Kuhn also falsely denied that his family were from Germany. So it wouldn't be unusual.

But I think I have stumbled across some correspondence from Frank stating that although their surname sounds German, their family have absolutely no links with that country as their father emigrated from Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein in 1857, and his grandfather and great grandfather also lived in Lauenburg and at no time were subjects of Germany, but that Lauenburg was part of Denmark at that time and also that his mother was also Danish.

Now had it confirmed that I had the right family, and they did change their name during WW1