The Golden Age of Speedway by Philip Dalling

By Philip Dalling

The post-war period used to be British speedway’s golden age. Ten million spectators undergone the turnstiles of a checklist variety of tracks on the sport’s top. With league gates as excessive as 80,000, speedway provided a colorful technique of get away from the awful austerity of the times.

A determinedly fresh photograph, with out having a bet and rival enthusiasts mingling at the terraces, made speedway the relatives evening out of selection. the game thrived regardless of punitive taxation and govt threats to shut down the speedways as a chance to business productivity.

A three-division nationwide League stretched from Exeter to Edinburgh and the area Championship ultimate attracted a potential viewers to Wembley. try fits opposed to Australia supplied another overseas dimension.

Even on the peak of its attractiveness, speedway was once a wearing edifice outfitted on volatile foundations, which crumbled alarmingly because the Nineteen Fifties dawned and Britain’s monetary and social restoration introduced competing points of interest like television.

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