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Post by administrator on Dec 2, 2012 11:48:54 GMT 1
www.box.com/s/csbg4elvhn7qcxyqsxm1/1/145447546/3479514604/1The link above works if you cut and paste it into your browser. It will take you into a copy of the "Speedway News" dated August 13 1938. In it there is an advert for the London Midget Car Championship at Hackney on the same date. Is more known about this meeting - and a possible result?
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Post by haflinger121 on Dec 2, 2012 12:58:33 GMT 1
That's interesting, John. So the 1936 World Championship wasn't the only midget meeting ever to take place at Waterden Road!
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Post by administrator on Dec 2, 2012 13:32:21 GMT 1
That's interesting, John. So the 1936 World Championship wasn't the only midget meeting ever to take place at Waterden Road! Well, so it would seem. A bit surprising though because Lea Bridge had just closed, then revived extremely briefly at Crystal Palace, then also closed down. The link is from oldtimespeedway's speedway-in-print section. I am not sure if there is an edition for the following week on file as that might give more crucial information.
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Post by derek on Dec 4, 2012 10:50:54 GMT 1
I've had a quick look at my files and sure enough the London car Championship took place at Hackney on the 13th. It was a "mixed" meeting the cars sharing the event with Putt Mossman. The Championship consisted of four heats two semi-finals and a final (four cars in every race) The final was won by -youv'e guessed it- Walter Mackereth! second Les White third Bill Reynolds and fourth Johnny Young. All of the drivers were based in or around London, none of the Midland or Northern drivers came down for the event. There is a report in speedway world, it dosn't give much detail except that Spike Rhiando injured himself having just returned from a previous accident he had racing bikes at Dagenham. Attachments:
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Post by haflinger121 on Dec 4, 2012 17:58:46 GMT 1
Nice one Derek. But....I thought Reynolds went to Oz in '36 and never came back?
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Post by administrator on Dec 4, 2012 23:44:49 GMT 1
I've had a quick look at my files and sure enough the London car Championship took place at Hackney on the 13th. It was a "mixed" meeting the cars sharing the event with Putt Mossman. The Championship consisted of four heats two semi-finals and a final (four cars in every race) The final was won by -youv'e guessed it- Walter Mackereth! second Les White third Bill Reynolds and fourth Johnny Young. All of the drivers were based in or around London, none of the Midland or Northern drivers came down for the event. There is a report in speedway world, it dosn't give much detail except that Spike Rhiando injured himself having just returned from a previous accident he had racing bikes at Dagenham. Interesting to see that Spike Rhiando was still trying his hand as a speedway rider - at Dagenham - in 1938. Legend has it that an "unkown American" AJ Franchetti turned up for speedway trials with Stamford Bridge in 1930. General opinion among speedway racing researchers is that this was Rhiando.
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Post by haflinger121 on Dec 5, 2012 9:56:54 GMT 1
I think Spike continued to dabble with speedway long after we all (well, me anyway) thought he'd switched to exclusively racing cars. What do you think about Reynolds having raced in this Hackney event?
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derek
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Post by derek on Dec 5, 2012 11:05:02 GMT 1
I think that you are getting Reynolds mixed up with Revelle. Revelle went to Oz in 36 and never came back. After the 38 season Bill Reynolds went first to New Zealand and then over to Oz where he settled and became one of the greatest Midget Car drivers of his time.
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Post by haflinger121 on Dec 5, 2012 19:05:03 GMT 1
Sorry Derek, you are probably right. I've read so much about both men recently that I've probably got them mixed up. Reville actually looks to have been in Oz from late '35 judging by results I have here which put him in the country in November for sure.
As for Reynolds, it would appear that he intended to come back to the UK and just never did.
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Post by kiwikid34 on Dec 6, 2012 2:00:14 GMT 1
I think that you are getting Reynolds mixed up with Revelle. Revelle went to Oz in 36 and never came back. After the 38 season Bill Reynolds went first to New Zealand and then over to Oz where he settled and became one of the greatest Midget Car drivers of his time. I think that in professional life Bill Reynolds was a sports photographer specialising in horse racing?
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Post by haflinger121 on Dec 6, 2012 10:28:38 GMT 1
Only last night I was reading a copy of a piece from an NZ magazine which talked about Reynolds' many and varied careers. Although it does not actually say in so many words that he was a photographer specialising in horse racing, one paragraph says: "He holds various official motor cycling records, and probably put up a number of unofficial ones when employed by a Fleet Street news agency....his feat in travelling from Epsom Downs to Fleet Street, a distance of 19 miles, in seventeen and a half minutes with photographs of the Derby, suggests that....he has a charmed life".
The main thrust of the story however, is that Bill was travelling to NZ on a ship named the Rimutaka, which caught fire. The NZ evening papers were in a race to get pics of the incident and somebody remembered that Bill was on board and radioed him to shoot some for them. But as the story relates:
"Reynolds....found himself in a peculiarly inglorious position, for although he carried with him an excellent press camera, he had already used up all the plates on quite commonplace subjects.
He managed, however, to borrow a small camera and a roll of film from a fellow passenger, and it was with this that his pictures were taken."
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