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 15
No new files this week but plenty of updates, mainly Mark Aspinell’s Southampton files and Joe Wake’s Newcastle files.
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June 26
Many thanks are due to Mark Aspinell who has now completed the files for Southampton which, a few months ago, was one of the most neglected of the teams. The files are superb and are a great addition to the site.
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July 6
The only new file this time is the latest addition to the season results with 1930 now on line. This file replaces a lot of the files that were previously on the 1930 page and incorporate the files that Bob Ozanne produced a few years ago with the work done by Brian Collins, many of our other researchers and new information found from newspaper articles and magazines. I think the 1928 and 1929 files have been updated something like 17 and 11 times respectively over the last few months, so new information is always coming in. There are some good updates as well with thanks to everyone concerned, including Duncan Luke for his marked Liverpool v Nottingham 1936 programme.
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July 18
This will be the last update for a couple of weeks as I am off on one of those long forgotten things we used to do -
Thanks to Mark Aspinell for the new file this week and plenty of updates as well including the first in a series of Coventry updates from Stuart Staite-
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