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Post by administrator on May 30, 2011 11:59:16 GMT 1
This is a letter written by former speedway rider and promoter Reg Fearman to Vintage Speedway Magazine circa 2003:
In the letters column there is one from our old friend John Hyam, speedway correspondent extraordianire of the 1940s and 1950s. he mentions the Atom Car test at Wimbledon by Ronnie Moore in 1955. It was built by Allard, and obviously the configuration was not all that it should have been. The Atom Car is now in the possession of Jack Taylor, a former speedway rider at California and eleswhere, who now lives in reading. He bought the car last year and it is now undergoing total restoration. The Skirrow midget car raced in this coutry in the 1930s were, I beieve, front wheel drives and not at all suited to our tracks. And yes I remember the midget cars at Walthamstow in 1951, with film star Lana Turner as the front person, and Digger Pugh as the promoter. Spike Rhiando and Fay Taylour came with the troupe from the States, along with Frank 'Satan'Brewer. There was tremendous publicity, but unfortunately midget car racing never took off in this country. REG FEARMAN, Henley, Oxfordshire.
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Post by youtubefiend on May 30, 2011 12:53:48 GMT 1
This is a letter written by former speedway rider and promoter Reg Fearman to Vintage Speedway Magazine circa 2003:In the letters column there is one from our old friend John Hyam, speedway correspondent extraordianire of the 1940s and 1950s. he mentions the Atom Car test at Wimbledon by Ronnie Moore in 1955. It was built by Allard, and obviously the configuration was not all that it should have been. The Atom Car is now in the possession of Jack Taylor, a former speedway rider at California and eleswhere, who now lives in reading. He bought the car last year and it is now undergoing total restoration. The Skirrow midget car raced in this coutry in the 1930s were, I beieve, front wheel drives and not at all suited to our tracks. And yes I remember the midget cars at Walthamstow in 1951, with film star Lana Turner as the front person, and Digger Pugh as the promoter. Spike Rhiando and Fay Taylour came with the troupe from the States, along with Frank 'Satan'Brewer. There was tremendous publicity, but unfortunately midget car racing never took off in this country. REG FEARMAN, Henley, Oxfordshire. What a lot of codswallop about the 1951 midgets at Walthamstow?
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Post by rodpashley on May 30, 2011 13:54:48 GMT 1
Now theres a man who knows zilch about Midget cars....
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Post by haflinger121 on May 30, 2011 18:58:15 GMT 1
Perhaps we should be kind and say, there's a man who's memory just doesn't work anymore. Unfortunately, as with all publication of erroneous mis-information, somebody will one day look at that letter and take it as gospel.
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Post by administrator on May 30, 2011 23:04:53 GMT 1
The original Reg Fearman letter in the now defunct 'Vintage Speedway Magazine' circa 2003. Reg Fearman letter 4.jpg[/img] Attachments:
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