MOTOR SPORTS
335 Two framed 1929 sets of Dirt Track Racing cigarette cards, ‘Thrills of the Dirt Track’, a complete photographic set of 16 given with Champion and Triumph cigarettes, each card individually dated between April and June 1929, mounted, framed and glazed, 38 by 46cm., 15 by 18in., ‘Famous Dirt Track Riders’, an illustrated colour set of 25 given with Ogden’s Cigarettes, each card featuring the portrait and signature of a successful 1928 rider, mounted, framed and glazed, 33 by 48cm., 13 by 19in., plus ‘Speedway Riders’, a similar late-1930s illustrated colour set of 50 given with Player’s Cigarettes, mounted, framed and glazed, 51 by 56cm., 20 by 22in.; sold with three small enamelled metal speedway supporters club pin badges for the New Cross, Wembley and West Ham teams and various 1950-60s programmes for nine motorcycle races, sixteen Bolton-Le-Moors Car Club Driving Tests and a French velodrome derny event (qty.) £120 - 180
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337 Rare wartime Belle Vue Speedway programmes & bulletins, a collection comprising seven 1940 and two 1941 with colour covers, three 1941 and four 1942 self-cover, thereafter 18+16 separate 1943 programmes & bulletins, 24+23 1944, 7+7 1945, plus 24+23 post VE Day 1945, the programmes folded single sheet, the bulletins self-cover, sold with one New Cross and two Brough Park 1945 programmes, all in good condition, some with minimal notation (160)
The start of WWII occurred days before the end of the 1939 season and led to the suspension of speedway racing everywhere, except for Belle Vue Park that refused to close. There the promoters overcame wartime restrictions and 144 meetings were held between Easter 1940 and VE Day 1945. £100 - 150
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336 Two rare 1928, ten 1929 and nineteen 1930s speedway programmes, comprising a Belle Vue Speedway 4th September 1928 single-folded sheet, a White City Speedway (London) 10th October 1928 single sheet with pencil results notation, ten 1929 Fullerton Park Leeds Stadium events dated 23rd March to 11th May, including four English League matches, all single-folded sheets with full results notation, plus two other early 1929 events at Post Hill and Morley, two Argentinian speedway meetings featuring touring colonial riders dated February 1930 and January 1931, all printed on variously sized folded card, four England v. Australia test matches dated 1931-1933, three 1939 and two 1939 England v. The Dominions, a 1931 Leeds Stadium North v. South, 1934 Walthamstow Official Opening, two 1934 Wembley v. Belle Vue, 1936 Wembley World Championship Qualifying Round, two 1937 Wimbledon and a 1939 West Ham league match, plus 1939 Droitwich grass track; together with a 1933 and 1935 issue of Speedway Gazette, three 1935 Speedway Mirror, including Vol 1 No 1, a scrapbook with 18 pages of 1938 speedway press cuttings, and two Veteran Dirt Track Riders Association signed menu cards, the 20 rider signatures including Eric Chitty, Bill Kitchen, Eric & Oliver Langton, Frank Varey (42)
February 1928 saw the first British dirt track meeting held at High Beech in Epping Forest. By the end of the year fifty such venues were operational. One of them was Fullerton Park, next door to Leeds United FC in Elland Road, where the home team was awarded the very first English League title in 1929. Eight of the Leeds programmes included here have ‘F.O. Langton’ marked atop the first page, the same name as the Clerk of the Course and father of Leeds riders Eric and Oliver Langton. £150 - 250
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