Defunct Speedway Tracks
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Plymouth Speedway |
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| Plymouth Badges Rob Phinn's Pics | ||
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Pennycross Stadium, Pennycross, Plymouth. Racing took place off and on
between 1931 - 1970. When you think of Plymouth the Devil logo
springs to mind. However the team were also known as :- |
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| Tigers | 1932 to 1934 | |
| Panthers | 1935 to 1936 | |
| Devils | 1947 to 1954, 1962 and 1968 to 1970 | |
| Drakes | 1960 | |
| Bulldogs | 1961 | |
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Courtesy of Tim Locke |
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| Plymouth Badges | ||
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| Possibly 1949 to 1953? * See below | Year Unknown | 1969 |
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| Please email me if you have any 1931-1970 Plymouth badge(s )which we could scan and add to this page. Email me here. John | ||
| Re the Junior Club badge shown above:- | ||
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Hi John: I came across this badge which belonged to my late
father David, He would have been a Plymouth Devils Junior
circa 1949 - 53 or thereabouts. I hope you can make use
of the image. Regards Greg Curno
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Ian Fursey's Programmes Etc |
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| Ian's father Doug Fursey rode for Plymouth in the early 1950s. My thanks to Ian for supplying a few items, shown below. | ||
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Doug Fursey |
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| This is Ian's dad Doug Fursey, who made 79 appearances for Plymouth between 1951 and 1953 | ||
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Doug's early 1950s Race Jacket |
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| Plymouth Team | ||
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| Courtesy of Ian Fursey | ||
| If you can name the riders and say what year the team rode together please email me John | ||
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Bob Bath says: Hi John, I can name a couple of riders on
this photo which seems to have stumped most folks. The rider
standing on The far left is Alan Smith for sure and the rider
on the bike is George Wall. That’s the best I can do though.
Keep smilin’ and great website- I frequently find myself
referring to it. Keep up the great work-its much appreciated.
cheers Bob Bath
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Jim Rayner says: Hi John, The rider standing second from the
right is Bill Thatcher . He was a relative, I remember his
nickname as "puffing Billy" because he did not wear a face
mask . He also rode for Oxford Cheetahs.
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| Steve Baker says: Plymouth team is from 1952 and while I don't know all the names here is what I have, left to right, Freddie Frape (track manager), Alan Smith, ?, Brian Hitchcock, ?, Sid Hazzard (team manager), Dennis Hayes, Bill Thatcher, Johnny Bradford, ?, on bike is George Wall, I don't know the guys kneeling. | ||
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Alex Gray |
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Unknown Plymouth Rider |
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Unknown
Plymouth rider (circa 1950) (Photo apparently taken at same time as the
one of Alex Gray above) |
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| Ian Fursey says: I believe it to be TED GIBSON who road for Plymouth 1948/49 | ||
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1961 Cliff Cox |
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| Plymouth Team | ||
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| Courtesy of Graham Gleave | ||
| Plymouth Team | ||
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| Courtesy of Graham Gleave | ||
| Plymouth Devils 1962 | ||
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Plymouth 1962 can you name the riders John |
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Peter Kearns says:
Standing: Chris Julian, Jimmy Squibb, Ivor Toms (I think), Bernard Curtiss
(Promoter), Chris Blewett, Bert Roger, Maury Mattingley with Cliff Cox
on bike.
The Devils dropped out of
the Provincial league at the end of 1962. Curtiss promoted for this one
year and probably lost a lot of money due to poor crowds.
Sad to say that Julian,
Squibb, Blewett, Mattingley and Cox are certainly departed from this
world and possibly some of the others too
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| Team Line Up Year Unknown |
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| If you can name the riders and say which year the above image is from please email me John | ||
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Hi john, Plymouth Devils year
unknown. I believe to be 1969 as
my brother in law, Tony George is
front row on the right. Regards
Steve
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| Bob Bath says: Hi John, in addition to Tony George –already identified, I think the guy at the back right is Mike Cake-the guy in civvies is Pete Lansdale(promoter I think). Cheers mate and keep up the great work. Happy new Year (2016) from Canada. | ||
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Russ Skinner says: Hi John (Skinner) no relation to Russ. I
can fill in the gap's in your information on this photo it was
not 1969 it was 1968 when Pete lansdale and Wally Mawdsley
were co promoters they only did one year. Left to right
back row is Pete Lansdale, Frank Payne.Keith Mark's,Phil
Woodcock.Eric Howe,and Mike Cake. Front row left to
right is Dave Whittaker and Tony George. Many thanks for
an interesting site. Russ Skinner (Plymouth rider 1969)
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| Rob Phinn's Photographs | ||
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| John says: can anyone say exactly what these "Kits" were used for. Was it just used by Plymouth or did all tracks have their boxes too? John | ||
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Rob Phinn says: Hello again John, The
Plymouth images which I recently sent you included
two wooden boxes containing coloured balls (Red
Blue White Yellow) these boxes were used to decide
starting gate positions in such instances as Run
Offs or second half races and most tracks had
these, both these two were used at Pennycross
stadium and are now in my possession.
Regards Rob Phinn
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Rob Phinn says: Hello John, I just came across your page on
defunct speedway tracks and thought you might like to add the
above pictures, all images are related to Plymouth speedway.
Regards Rob
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Chris Roynon |
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| Plymouth v Weymouth 1968 | ||
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| British League Division 2 | ||
| Plymouth Devils 1969 | ||
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If you can scan any pictures, programmes or badges send me an email John |
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| The contents of the site are © and should not be reproduced elsewhere for financial gain. The contributors to this site gave the pictures and information on that understanding. If anyone has any issue or objections to any items on the site please e-mail and I will amend or remove the item. Where possible credit has been given to the owner of each item. | ||
