RIDE IT! THE COMPLETE BOOK OF SPEEDWAY
Written by Cyril May
Published by Haynes Publishing Group
in 1976
ISBN: 0854292101
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RIDE IT! THE COMPLETE BOOK OF SPEEDWAY
Written by Cyril May.
Stock no. 2132277
1978.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition.
Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. Specially reprinted edition 1978 - 50th Anniversary Speedway. ISBN: 0854292101. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spine and cover edges are faded. Browning to endpapers.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The early days
- Australia catches on
- Dirt track racing comes to Britain
- Climb on the band wagon
- The advent of league racing
- The professional touch
- The war-time years
- The post-war years
- The evolution of the speedway machine
- Speedway engines
- The Unsung heroes
- They pay to serve
- the speedway collectors
- Speedway mascots of the early days
- Good lookers - but fierce rivals
- Lew Coffin
- His ambition? - to be a professional speedway rider
- Test Matches: England versus Australia
- The World Championship through the years
- Speedway - on spikes
- Superstars - ten of the best
- They live in memory
- Postscript