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| Melton Mowbray Speedway |
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| Melton Mowbray had
two tracks. In 1936, local Melton rider Wilf Plant created a
basic track just out of town, (exact location unknown), to
practise on on Sundays, with a few friends. The local vicar
put a stop to the venue by making noise complaints. |
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13 years for another brief sojurn into speedway also thanks to
Wilf Plant. This second track was located as follows: - |
| Melton Mowbray
Greyhound Stadium, Saxby Road, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
The venture started in 1949 and was over in 1950. |
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| Wilf Plant |
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| Courtesy of J Spoor |
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| Was Wilf the pick of
Melton Mowbray born speedway riders. Well yes, I expect he
was the only one! The picture shows Plant in Coventry
colours. |
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Melton Mowbray
Newspaper Items |
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| I have seen a number
of newspaper pieces about Melton Mowbray speedway, sent to me by
Keith Corns. The Newsprint Articles would be great to show
on the website but alas they are too low resolution making them
unreadable unfortunately. Perhaps Keith can sort the items
out and get back to me with bigger images? |
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Melton Mowbray 1949 Programme |
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Programme Scans Courtesy of Alan Booth |
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| 1949
Machinery |
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| Courtesy of J Spoor |
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| If the riders who turned up for the
open meetings at Saxby Road could afford the best equipment
they would have turned up with the magnificent machine shown
above, brand spanking new in 1949 when Melton Mowbray ran
their meetings. JAPs reigned supreme at that time and
no-one rode anything else in the UK although in Czechoslavakia
they had ESO and Jawa Speedway machines. |
| The 500cc single cylinder JAP engine
had an exceptionally long stroke, you can see from the
photograph how tall the engine is. The compression ratio
was around 15:1 and the engine ran on wood alcohol and later methanol. Now for
an engine 68 years old it is still very quick, with neck jerking
acceleration, such is the mighty JAP |
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| If you have photos etc of Melton
Mowbray please send me an email
John |
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