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REG LUCKHURST INTERVIEW
Reg Luckhurst now spends each winter soaking up the Tenerife sunshine, but we
caught up with the former Wimbledon star and World Finalist who also rode for
New Cross, Edinburgh, Southampton, West Ham and Canterbury and made his mark on
a different track - as a recording artist.
THE JAYS – FAMILY OF TIGERS
Speedway has always been a family affair but things reached a new peak at
Sheffield one summer evening in the swinging 60s. We recall how former star Wilf
Jay returned to the track after a 12-year absence, to share the riding limelight
with his sons, Alan and Derek, and then youngest son Stuart also followed his
father on to the shale.
MAURICE MORLEY INTERVIEW
There can hardly be a role Maurice Morley did not try at least once in a career
spanning 40 years. First as a novice rider, then occasional mechanic to an
England legend, on to team manager, track curator, general manager, announcer,
programme designer and copy writer, and co-promoter . . . he has just about done
it all. His management CV in the 60s included spells with Middlesbrough,
Newcastle, Sheffield, Halifax, Hackney and Romford.
LEGEND: BLUEY WILKINSON
One of the all-time greats at West Ham, the Australian pre-war star Arthur
`Bluey' Wilkinson was World Champion when he quit racing in 1939 and, as we
recall, perished young in an accident far away from the dirt track.
Q&A WITH . . . JOHN CARPENTER
Looking back at the highs and lows in the racing career of the former Leicester
Hunters rider.
Plus . . .
How a bored KEN LE BRETON gave up his job as a foreman in a Sydney tobacco
factory to become an international star.
How Fleetwood made history in 1950 by giving a debut to the first Polish rider
to ever represent a British team.
Memories of post-war NEW CROSS.
Tribute to one of the Cradley Heath pioneers of the late 40s, ERIC IRONS.
Your letters, our latest quiz and the 1970 COVENTRY BEES in full colour.
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