http://www.historicspeedway.co.nz
This site seeks to record a brief history of New Zealand speedways, past and present, particularly in our home province of Taranaki, starting with Waiwakaiho Speedway (1950–1969).
Speedway in NZ started in the late 1920’s and prior to1965 ran solo motorbikes, midgets, sidecars and TQ’s (Three quarter midgets) Stock, sprint and saloon cars came later.
http://www.sunderlandspeedway.co.uk
The aim of this Website is to keep alive the memories of speedway at the Boldon Stadium, home of the Sunderland Stars. Renewed interest of speedway in the area is evident following our reunions over the last few years. Over the last twelve months interest in Sunderland Speedway has increased week by week, quite amazing after all these years have passed since speedway was last held at the Boldon Stadium. The Stadium itself has had a huge face-lift in recent years, it is now considered to be one of the top greyhound stadiums in the north of England. A number of “links” have been made since this web-site was first launched, with Ian Martinquick to spot any possible opportunity to raise the profile of our web-site and its supporters. As Ian and Bob Ferry push ahead with the organising of the annual reunions, there are always high hopes of new and interesting guests each time as well as the old favourites. Lets face it, they make the reunions the success that they are!
http://www.guskuhn.net
This website is to commemorate and celebrate the life of Gus Kuhn, one of the pioneers of motorcycle sport, and the company that he founded.
The war was nearly at its end and world peace will soon be back, and every ones lives will have changed for ever, but what about Speedway ?
What was going to happen to that, now that the Speedways big wigs of the period were looking to bring it back to the fans but will they be able to do it with all the rationing, lack of money and new taxes bought into place by the government.
Mr A.J Elvin the Managing Director of Wembley Stadium (1944), was hoping to get Speedway started again in the Summer.
Elvin had concerns that with the long period of time that the riders have not been able to ride, they would be a little rusty and thus the return of the sport to the 1000’s of fans per match would not be great spectacle until the riders had dusted off the ring rust. As well as the new Entertainment tax that the government had bought in to play which would amount to a 43% tax of the gross of the gate revenue. Things were not looking good.
The more mature riders prior to the start of the war will of course be bough back and training up new raw talent will be possible as Elvin had arranged a deal with Dick Case to lease the old track at Rye House, where Alex Jackson will take care of this setup and start training new talent.
After much hardwork of people such as: Mr A.J Elvin, Disk Case, Alex Jackson, Mr E.O. Spence (Managing Director of Belle Vue), Mr Fred E. Mockford (joint Managing Director of New Cross Speedway), Mr Victor Martin (Managing Director of Westham Speedway). The sport was now back.
All these names and others should be remembered as the guys that bought the great sport back to life.
Written by Stuart Slaney