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Post by tsrwright on Sept 29, 2010 12:43:39 GMT 1
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Post by tobyhalter on Sept 29, 2010 22:23:41 GMT 1
That's a good question about the three midgets taken to Australia. Stanley Budd aka Bud Stanley returned to England but Jean Reville stayed there. As the Gnats seemed to vanish from British tracks after the Australian tour, presumably they stayed on down-under. Sheer conjecture though on my part. Over to our Australian members for a possible answer? And I also think the photo is from 1935 rather than 1937 as stated on oldtimespeedway - by someone who should have known better when posting the photo!
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Post by tsrwright on Sept 30, 2010 1:30:32 GMT 1
I'll try and post it somehow or other but I have a cutting 16.10.35 announcing "Midget cars for Sydney: English teams on Liner" which foreshadows the arrival on the Orsova of drivers Reville, Secretan and Stanley, plus riders Haigh, Parkinson and Gregory. It goes on to say there is another "midget-car driver", name unknown, on another ship (with other riders). Pure speculation again but maybe there were four cars and four drivers and the photo is of them all together before leaving GB or after getting to Sydney. There are quite a lot of press mentions of Reville in Australian papers at this time but little or nothing of the other names. (See trove.nla.gov.au to search major Australian papers of the period). Any suggestions as to whom the fourth driver could be - I can search the shipping records to verify? Maybe there weren't four drivers but just three with Reville having two cars as I believe he did - in another cutting he has to go back to Sydney to get his other car for a Melbourne meeting.
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Post by tobyhalter on Sept 30, 2010 7:44:10 GMT 1
A driver named Ted Starkey also drove in the England team and there's a Post of an article by him on site, made in recent days, in the international match section of Test Match Scene.
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Post by tsrwright on Sept 30, 2010 8:45:15 GMT 1
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Post by tsrwright on Sept 30, 2010 10:41:36 GMT 1
A driver named Ted Starkey also drove in the England team and there's a Post of an article by him on site, made in recent days, in the international match section of Test Match Scene. Also mentioned in "1935 - off 'down under' No record of a Starkey travelling England-Australia 1934-36
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