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Midget Car Racing
Derek Bridgett
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Description for Midget Car Racing
Paperback. In 1934 E. O. Spence, the Belle Vue team manager tirelessly forged ahead to make Midget Car Racing the number one motor-racing sport in pre-war Britain. Num Pages: 128 pages, 99 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: WSPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 176 x 8. Weight in Grams: 304.
It was by chance that the author stumbled across a long lost programme for the opening meeting of Hanley Car Speedway for 21 July 1938. The programme had been hidden away in family papers for almost sixty years and it sparked an enduring interest in Midget Car Speedway. Motor sport had been the preserve of the rich and glamorous, but now the ordinary man could build a car and race it on a shoestring budget. It was the start of motor racing as we know it today and without the development of midget car racing, we perhaps would not have ... Read more
It was by chance that the author stumbled across a long lost programme for the opening meeting of Hanley Car Speedway for 21 July 1938. The programme had been hidden away in family papers for almost sixty years and it sparked an enduring interest in Midget Car Speedway. Motor sport had been the preserve of the rich and glamorous, but now the ordinary man could build a car and race it on a shoestring budget. It was the start of motor racing as we know it today and without the development of midget car racing, we perhaps would not have ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781552407
SKU
V9781781552407
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Derek Bridgett
Derek Bridgett has a degree in history and had life-long career industry. He lives in the Potteries. Since the 1940s Derek Bridgett's family has been connected with oval track racing and it was natural that he would get involved. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s he was part of a management team that promoted speedway and stock-car racing at various venues ... Read more
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