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Crystal Palace Speedway: A History of the Glaziers by Norman Jacobs (Paperback, 2012)

On 19 May 1928, just three months after the sport had been launched in this country at the pioneering High Beech meeting, Fred Mockford and Cecil Smith introduced speedway racing to Crystal Palace with the first international match between England and Australia, the forerunner of the Test matches. It was an immediate success with the public who flocked in their tens of thousands to witness these latter day black-clad gladiators hurtling their way round the track on bikes with brakes at breakneck speed and flinging their bikes into a slide at the corners at impossible angles. This book looks at how speedway came to open at Crystal Palace and follows its history through the next six years as a league team operating in the world's first speedway league until its closure in 1933 and its brief revival in the late 1930s. Although one of the pioneering tracks little was kwn about its history until w as Norman Jacobs provides a comprehensive history covering the major events at the track, facts and figures, behind the scenes anecdotes and its larger than life characters including Johnnie Hoskins, Ron Johnson and Tom Farndon, who became the Star Riders' champion in 1933.

Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road
Spine
10mm
Content Note
50 Black and White Photographs
Author Biography
Norman Jacobs is the author of 11 published speedway books plus 14 other books. He is a committee member of the Speedway Museum, and administrator of Speedway History Forum web site.
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Author(s)
Norman Jacobs
Date of Publication
23/08/2012
Subject
Motor Sports & Cycling
Imprint
Fonthill Media
Genre
Motor Sports & Cycling
Country of Publication
United Kingdom

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