Card Set 23

Defunct Speedway Tracks



Card Set 23

Speedway Stars (By Mickey Durling)

John Levitt has sent this set which I am delighted to be able to display on the website John Levitt says: Hi John [Skinner] I'm afraid that I don't have Photoshop only a program that was bundled with a previous printer so my attempts at scanning the cards maybe found wanting at times. I have tried the best I can but it has not been made any easier by the fact that the cards themselves have not been cut to a regular size and an exact rectangular shape. The set consists of 100 numbered cards with sizes varying between 65-68mm x 40-42mm. Each caricature is enclosed in a box 58mm x 35mm with the card edge up to 5mm from the box edge with some as little as 1mm. Regarding the cards themselves there is no indication what so ever, when or who issued them. I acquired my set of 100 in an auction that listed them as anonymous. Similar cards were issued on Footballers and Cricketers and included Mickey Durling signed caricatures as well as others unsigned. The London Cigarette Card Company listed the Cricketers as being issued in the 1960's however I believe they were wrong. I believe all the cards were issued in the late 1980's and the issuer either produced or intended to produce a mixture of numbered, coloured, black lined, blue lined, signed and unsigned caricatures for all three sports.





The Full 100 Listing Is As Follows

1	Ron Johnston	Belle Vue
2	Allan Kidd	Poole
3	Reg Reeves	Yarmouth
4	Peter Clark	Rayleigh
5	Brian Crutcher	Wembley
6	Maury Dunn	Harringay
7	Howdy Byford	West Ham
8	Eric Boothroyd	Birmingham
9	Eddie Rigg	Odsal
10	Ron Swaine	Swindon
11	Geoff Mardon	Wimbledon
12	Keith Gurtner	Ashfield
13	Alan Smith	Plymouth
14	Freddy Williams	Wembley
15	Les Hewitt	Coventry
16	Billy Bales	Norwich
17	Gordon McGregor	Motherwell
18	Derek Braithwaite	Wolverhampton
19	Ken Sharples	Belle Vue
20	Ernie Rawlins	Southampton
21	Danny Malone	Swindon
22	Dick Campbell	Edinburgh
23	Bob Duckworth	St Austell
24	Bob Sharp	Glasgow White City
25	Derrick Tailby	Coventry
26	Titch Read	Ipswich
27	Ron How	Harringay
28	Fred Brand	Yarmouth
29	Jim Lightfoot	Coventry
30	Chris Boss	Bristol
31	Johnnie Chamberlain	Yarmouth
32	Norman Street	St Austell
33	Harry Bastable	Wolverhampton
34	Basil Harris	Aldershot
35	Sid Clark	Ipswich
36	Frank Boyle	Oxford
37	Bob Mark	Edinburgh
38	George Smith	Belle Vue
39	Dick Bradley	Bristol
40	Bill Codling	Norwich
41	Bert Croucher	Southampton
42	George Wilks	Wembley
43	Arthur Forrest	Bradford
44	Dan Forsberg	Birmingham
45	Dennis Parker	Leicester
46	Hugh Geddes	Cardiff
47	Peter Dykes	Glasgow White City
48	Pat Clark	Oxford
49	Brian Hitchcock	Plymouth
50	Reg Duval	Coventry
51	Don Potter	Stoke
52	Fred Rogers	Norwich
53	Jack Unstead	Rayleigh
54	Bob Leverenz	Norwich
55	Arthur Wright	Bradford
56	Barry Briggs	Wimbledon
57	Ken McKinlay	Glasgow White City
58	Ken Middleditch	Poole
59	Split Waterman	Harringay
60	Derek Close	Motherwell
61	Jim Boyd	Oxford
62	Olle Nygren	Harringay
63	Merv Harding	New Cross
64	Ian Williams	Swindon
65	Jim Tolley	Wolverhampton
66	Ken Adams	Stoke
67	Graham Warren	Birmingham
68	Maurice McDermott	Rayleigh
69	Len Williams	Leicester
70	Malcolm Craven	West Ham
71	Alan Hunt	Birmingham
72	Gerald Jackson	Rayleigh
73	Goog Hoskin	Exeter
74	Brian Shepherd	Wolverhampton
75	Bert Spencer	Norwich
76	Jack Parker	Belle Vue
77	Eric Williams	Wembley
78	Tommy Miller	Glasgow White City
79	Bluey Scott	Motherwell
80	Vic Duggan	Harringay
81	Terry Small	Poole
82	Bill Thatcher	Plymouth
83	Bill Osborne	Oxford
84	Jack Geran	Exeter
85	Joe Bowkis	Harringay
86	Ronnie Moore	Wimbledon
87	Peter Moore	Wimbledon
88	Ernie Brecknell	Southampton
89	Jack Gates	St Austell
90	Lionel Benson	Leicester
91	Phil Clarke	Norwich
92	Harold McNaughton	Ipswich
93	Bill Griffiths	Liverpool
94	Neil Street	Exeter
95	Tommy Price	Wembley
96	Dent Oliver	Belle Vue
97	Louis Lawson	Belle Vue
98	Bill Gilbert	Wembley
99	Ron Johnson	New Cross
100	Don Cuppleditch	Edinburgh

John says I did not compile the above listing so I cannot confirm its accuracy. It is quite possible that some of the riders names are incorrect and/or their teams mentioned are wrong.





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John Levitt says: cards in which all the backs are not blank but have instead a motif which states "Speedway stars by Mickey Durling No. ………. RICHARDS COLLECTION". Again I have attached an image of this (see above). Again as in the first set I mentioned the cards are cut inconsistently and the printed backs vary in colour brightness which is blue as well as not being consistently centred.

A full set of 100 cards courtesy of John Levitt. Thank you John for letting us see your cards.




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