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Post by weewillie on May 9, 2009 17:42:15 GMT 1
The UK Skirrows raced in Holland in 1946, about October that year. I think there was also a match race between a Dutch speedway rider and a midget driver. I can't seem to find any details of this tour in the electronic article chapters. What's known about this tour - it seems rather soon to have happened after the end of the war.
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Post by administrator on Sept 7, 2010 14:22:09 GMT 1
October 13 1946
Den Haag (The Hague), Holland.
Drivers:
ENGLAND
Vic Patterson
Walter Mackereth
Frank Chiswell
Johnny Young
Billy Murden
Gene Crowley
Bob Breeze
Charles Gardiner
Eric Hough
SCOTLAND
Laurie Maxton
SPAIN
Don Juan Amymerich
Ramon Martinez
HOLLAND
Piet van Aartsen
J Blinda
W Cremer
Cars used were Elto, Skirrow and Murden Special.
Results:
Ht 1: Maxton, Mackereth, Patterson, Crowley.
Ht 2: Martinez, Young, Breeze (no finish), Hough (no finish).
Ht 3: Young, Chiswell, Maxton, Murden.
Ht 4: Crowley, Mackereth, Breeze, Gardiner.
Ht 5: Chiswell, Youg, Patterson, Murden.
Ht 6: Crowley, Maxton, Breeze, Gardiner.
Ht 7: Chiswell, Crowley, Mackereth, Murden.
Ht 8: Patterson, Maxton, Breeze, Hough.
There were other races on the programme but details were not recorded.
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Post by weewillie on Sept 7, 2010 14:52:47 GMT 1
I see the name of Laurie Maxton is among the drivers who raced in Holland. It has been largely claimed that in the winter of either 1946-47 or of 1947-48 that Maxton went to Australia seeking midget car drives. Did he succeed and if so where did he drive. I believe he was a friend of Walter Mackereth and Frank Chiswell?
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Post by youtubefiend on Sept 9, 2010 17:15:05 GMT 1
There's a Dutch midget car programme on ebay in stock cars at the moment for this meeting which I must presume is the source for the original reference.
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Post by administrator on Sept 25, 2010 14:56:10 GMT 1
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