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Post by thebaldeagle1932 on Mar 15, 2009 21:40:18 GMT
While I have no records to prove this claim, I remember my old dad telling me that there was a wartime London Riders Championship at West Ham in 1940. He said it had been won by Bill Longley of New Cross. Can anyone verify or disprove this?
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Post by crossedhammers on Mar 16, 2009 7:14:58 GMT
While I have no records to prove this claim, I remember my old dad telling me that there was a wartime London Riders Championship at West Ham in 1940. He said it had been won by Bill Longley of New Cross. Can anyone verify of disprove this? There were meetings at West Ham but it seems no records are available for them. It has been said that Eric Chitty was among the starters at a handful of 1940 meetings - held about May.
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Post by tungate on Mar 16, 2009 21:54:04 GMT
I would think Eric Chitty was in some London meetings during war years as he was in some of the Belle Vue meetings during that time
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Post by mrsgustix on Apr 11, 2009 20:59:01 GMT
I am certain that I read "somewhere" that Bill Longley won the 1940 London Riders Championship. It was raced the same afternoon as one of the wartime meetings at Crystal Palace. That would have been in May 1940.
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Post by tungate on Jul 16, 2009 9:04:14 GMT
There is a website about New Cross and it says there that the 1945 London Riders Championship was won by Ron Johnson
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Post by mrsgustix on Jul 16, 2009 15:46:19 GMT
Ron Johnson's 1945 victory is also included on the list of winners on this site which you Mr Tungate provided a few months ago. I think the only one that needs clarification is for 1940, probably raced at West Ham in May that year, and won by another Aussie rider Bill Longley.
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