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Post by weewillie on Apr 28, 2009 16:24:36 GMT 1
In the late 1950s, I used to stay with an uncle in Chichester, Sussex, who was a keen Southampton speedway supporter. In those years he also took me to see midget cars at Southampton and Eastbourne - must have been about 1957 or 1958. I remember one of the drivers was Jimmy Wright - was he the stock car driver or someone else?
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Post by thebaldeagle1932 on Apr 30, 2009 21:28:49 GMT 1
Jimmy Wright was a speedway rider with Birmingham, Cradley Heath and Oxford. He also rode in speedway meetings in Spain in 1953. Besides driving midget cars Jimmy Wright was also a leading stock car driver in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Post by administrator on Jan 6, 2012 1:00:41 GMT 1
Eastbourne 1937 and 1938: Any update on this, taken from the oldtimespeedway site? ::::::::: --- In oldtimespeedway@yahoogroups.com, First Bend Bunching <firstbend@...> wrote: Midget cars raced at Eastbourne late in both the 1937 and 1938 seasons and were known as - Doodle Bugs! Now, since flying bombs were not dropped until 1940, I believe, how did they get that name??? Brian Collins 1928 UK Diary - www.speedwayresearcher.org.uk/docs/1928/record.pdfTest Matches - www.internationalspeedway.co.uk
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Post by rodpashley on Jan 6, 2012 3:18:13 GMT 1
Doodlebugs was an American name for Midget, as well as midget racing was sometimes known known as "Doodle dicing" well before WW2. The V! "flying bomb" was called "Doodle bug" after the exhaust note of an ELTO powered Midget because the sound was similar. There are enough bits of film on youtube, and newsreel film to compare them. I have done it, and they do sound similar. Doodlebugs were not "dropped" but flown using an automatic guidance system, Good job the war ended.
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