News and Updates
Future Policy
The Speedway Researcher magazine which can be viewed on the Speedway Researcher web site was set up by Graham Fraser and Jim Henry to promote research into the history of Speedway and Dirt Track Racing. It was intended to help those with an interest in any aspect of the sport and its history to make others aware of what their interests and to encourage others who had similar interests to work together. It provided a vehicle whereby researchers could advise others of what they were doing and make others aware of what they were looking for.
The magazine published articles on a wide range of topics related to speedway and dirt track racing.
The web site came along a good while after the magazine, the idea of the late Ron McNeil who gave us the idea of using this medium to provide a platform for sharing information about speedway meetings held in the UK from 1928 to date. At first the site was funded by income generated by the magazine but since the magazine closed down the funds have become nearly exhausted and it is now largely privately funded. The costs are dictated by the amount space taken to host the information and are currently not unreasonable. The next step up, is, however, a significant leap.
Taking this into account the space available has to be prioritised. The first priority is to ensure the base source of information, meeting details, are fully provided for.
For the foregoing reasons we are going to decline to carry any additional items which are compilations of information drawn from our meeting details. However, in a bid to facilitate networking we intend to continue for the time-
June 1
Thanks go, once again, to Robert Bamford who has provided us with more new Swindon files and we have a few really good updates again.
We are always looking for more people to help out with the site, so if you have a favourite team and would like to see more results on the site, have you got the time to put something together?
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June 14
Robert Bamford continues his great work with the Swindon files and contributes a new file for 2003 this week.
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June 29
A great update today with some new files and some excellent updates. Robert Bamford has submitted the file for the joint Reading and Swindon Conference League side, the M4 Raven Sprockets, for their only season, 1997 and has finished the two remaining files for the Swindon Sprockets league seasons. Also, Andy Reid has completed our first Linlithgow file. Many thanks to both and to Graham Gleave for his tireless efforts on the updates front.
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July 21
Huge thanks this week to Robert Bamford for two new Swindon files, Mark Aspinell for a new Reading file, the intrepid Graham Gleave who has been to the Newcastle library to dig out some Whitley Bay and Newcastle Gosforth results from nearly a century ago, and to our Wembley correspondent for the loan of the 1937 steward’s programmes, from which we have gleaned a lot of new information -
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