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Crystal Palace Speedway - A History of the Glaziers (Paperback)
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Crystal Palace Speedway - A History of the Glaziers (Paperback)
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On 19 May 1928, just three months after the sport had been launched
in this country at the pioneering High Beech meeting, Fred Mockford
and Cecil Smith introduced speedway racing to Crystal Palace with
the first international match between England and Australia, the
forerunner of the Test matches. It was an immediate success with
the public who flocked in their tens of thousands to witness these
latter day black-clad gladiators hurtling their way round the track
on bikes with no brakes at breakneck speed and flinging their bikes
into a slide at the corners at impossible angles. This book looks
at how speedway came to open at Crystal Palace and follows its
history through the next six years as a league team operating in
the world's first speedway league until its closure in 1933 and its
brief revival in the late 1930s. Although one of the pioneering
tracks little was known about its history until now as Norman
Jacobs provides a comprehensive history covering the major events
at the track, facts and figures, behind the scenes anecdotes and
its larger than life characters including Johnnie Hoskins, Ron
Johnson and Tom Farndon, who became the Star Riders' champion in
1933.
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