Speedway Programmes and Badges For Swap

Last updated : 10th February,2024
† = new additions

All items are available for swap - my main interest is programmes & old badges (1928 - 60) {see wants page}. Please suggest any swaps you may wish. P.S. if there is nothing in list you need, but have any of my wants, & would be willing to swap/sell, please let me know what you are looking for as I may be able to come up with the goods !

(PH=punch holes)


BARNET : (hard to find pre-war Sunday amateur track, near London) Individual 3/5/36
BELLE VUE : vs New Cross 22/7/61 vs Oxford 6/5/61 vs Wimbledon 27/5/61
BELFAST (DUMORE) : vs Liverpool 15/7/50
BRISTOL (KNOWLE) : vs Harringay 11/9/53, vs Wimbledon, 7/8/53 Open 12/5/50
BRISTOL (EASTVILLE) : vs Poole 13/5/77
CALIFORNIA (ALDERSHOT STADIUM) : [Due to their own Stadium (Longmoor, Wokingham), being only available for one individual meeting during 1957, the California Promotion ran the rest of their meetngs from Aldershot, as the sole tenant that season. This turned out to be the last season that California existed as a league entity]
vs The Rest S.A.L.(rained off) 10/8/57
CARDIFF : vs Eskilstuna 10/4/52
COVENTRY : vs Belle Vue 14/5/60, vs Birmingham 25/10/52(ph),vs Bristol 21/8/54 vs Norwich 5/8/50 vs Swindon 12/7/58' vs Wimbledon 31/5/58'WCQR 30/6/62 Open 17/5/58,12/9/59
COWDENBEATH: vs Rest of Scotland 17/7/65 (last ever meeting)
CREWE : Composite event featuring bikes & sidecars and a 15 heat individual Speedway event. 27/11/76 (This late November meeting was staged the year after Crewe Kings quit the National League. Some training events were held during the normal season under the banner of Crewe Locos. However this event appears to have been organised by a different promotion, namely the Wolverhampton based "Midland Road Shows")
DROGHEDA (LOURDE STADIUM): Individual 2/7/68 - only meeting ever held†
DUBLIN (CHAPELIZOD) : vs Belle Vue Juniors 25/4/54
EDINBURGH : vs Belle Vue 21/10/90 vs Bradford 26/5/62 vs Exeter 1/9/62 vs Middlesbrough 21/4/62,15/9/62,25/5/63 vs Newcastle 20/5/77 vs Sheffield 18/8/62, 20/7/63 vs Wolverhampton 12/5/62, 23/6/62,10/4/65 19/6/62 PRCQR 25/8/62 Scottish Open 29/9/62,2/10/65
EXETER : vs Rayleigh 3/5/54
FLEETWOOD : vs Sheffield 20/4/48 vs Stoke 2/8/48 vs Edinburgh 29/6/49,21/9/49,24/5/50,25/4/51,5/9/51
GLASGOW ASHFIELD : vs Fleetwood 3/4/51,Scottish All Stars vs Dominions 23/6/53 (Open licence season)
GLASGOW WHITE CITY : vs Newport 17/7/64
HARRINGAY : vs Wembley 30/7/48, 15/7/49,11/4/52, 2/6/54 vs Wimbledon 17/9/48,15/9/50, 20/4/51 Open 16/6/54
HASTINGS: vs Stoke 10/8/49
IPSWICH : vs Oxford 18/5/62 vs Rayleigh 9/6/55,11/8/55,7/6/56 vs Wimbledon ,6/4/62', 8/6/62 Open 30/5/55,4/8/55, 9/8/56, 23/8/56, 3/4/61
LEEDS(FULLERTON PARK) : vs Sheffield 15/8/31
LIVERPOOL(STANLEY) : vs Bristol 20/7/36 vs Plymouth 13/7/36 vs Southampton 7/9/36 vs West Ham 29/6/36
LIVERPOOL(SEAFORTH) :(very rare - this track only ran a few mtgs in 1934/5 !!) Open 19/8/35
LONG EATON : vs Swindon 13/9/1951 (30/8/1951 rain-off reissued)
MIDDLESBROUGH : Grand Gala Meeting 31/10/1946 (16 page souvenir programme for final home meeting of 1946), vs Newcastle 16/10/47
NEATH :Individual 5/5/62†
NEW BRIGHTON (TOWER SPEEDWAY) :Individual 2/6/34
NEWCASTLE (BROUGH PARK) : vs America 23/4/51 (1st ever appearance of USA Touring Team in Ireland & Britain), vs Norwich 21/5/51
NEWCASTLE (GOSFORTH PARK) : Individual 21/9/29
NEW CROSS : vs Exeter 23/4/63 vs Middlesbrough 25/6/63 vs Wembley 17/5/50 vs Wimbledon 21/5/47, 18/5/60, 13/7/60 BRCQR 6/8/47 Open 9/9/59
NEWPORT : vs Hackney 28/5/73
NORWICH : vs Belle Vue 28/9/57 vs Birmingham 20/7/46,31/7/48, 11/9/48,14/5/51' vs Bradford 3/10/53 vs Coventry 6/7/57 vs Fleetwood 14/7/51' vs Glasgow W.C. 9/10/48 vs Halifax 6/8/50 vs Hanley 22/9/51 vs Harringay 17/6/50, 25/8/51,30/5/53 vs Ipswich 7/7/56 vs Liverpool 16/6/51 vs Middlesbrough 6/7/46,17/4/48,3/7/48, 25/9/48 vs Oxford 12/5/51,3/7/64,5/9/64 vs Plymouth 22/4/50 vs Sheffield 3/8/46 vs Walthamstow 16/4/49,7/4/51,30/6/51,28/7/51 vs Wembley 1/8/53,8/9/56 vs West Ham 26/6/54, 28/3/64'
BRCQR 10/7/48 WCQR 23/8/52 Open 25/10/47,15/5/48', (neutral track Wembley vs West Ham 16/10/48), 3/9/49, 15/4/50,7/10/50, (neutral track Wembley vs Harringay 21/4/51), 1/9/9/51, 3/6/63,25/7/64'
OXFORD : Open 3/9/64
PETERBOROUGH : vs Canterbury 7/5/71
POOLE : vs Birmingham 4/8/55 vs Rayleigh 18/4/55 Open 30/10/48
PRESTON : Preston Handicap 16/7/31
PLYMOUTH : vs Belle Vue 15/5/34
RAYLEIGH : vs Birmingham 1/7/72
RYE HOUSE : 1940 Track Championship 14/7/40
SALFORD :vs Middlesbrough 20/5/29 (2 x punch holes, otherwise good condition for age)
SMALLFORD : (hard to find pre-war Sunday Amateur League track in Hertfordshire) vs Rye House 12/6/38
SOUTHAMPTON : vs Coventry 20/4/62,21/8/62 vs Crystal Palace 26/6/29 vs Exeter 24/8/29 vs Harringay 21/8/29 vs High Beech 9/10/29, vs Lea Bridge 3/7/29 vs London White City 25/9/29 vs Norwich 20/8/63 vs Oxford 7/6/60 vs Sheffield 23/10/29 vs West Ham 27/4/29,28/8/29 vs Wimbledon 10/4/62, 8/5/62, 10/7/62 Open 20/10/28,29/3/29,30/3/29,1/4/29,6/4/29,17/4/29, 20/4/29,11/5/29,20/5/29, 25/5/29, 1/6/29,8/6/29,12/6/29,10/7/29, 24/7/29,27/7/29,4/9/29, 16/10/29,19/10/29,26/10/29,21/5/57',18/6/57,3/9/57,31/7/62
STOKE(HANLEY) : vs Wombwell 17/7/47
SUNDERLAND : vs Edinburgh 28/4/64
SWINDON : vs Coventry 7/9/63) vs Wimbledon 16/5/59
TAMWORTH : vs Coventry 5/4/50,vs Cradley Heath 4/8/47,17/8/48 vs Hanley 3/8/49
WALTHAMSTOW : vs Southampton 16/10/50†
WEMBLEY : vs Birmingham 10/8/50,28/9/50’, 30/6/55, 9/8/56 vs Bradford 11/8/49 vs Bristol 1/6/50, vs Harringay 8/6/50 vs New Cross 7/10/48’, 14/10/48, 11/5/50, 6/7/50, vs Swindon 17/7/71 vs West Ham 13/10/49,12/8/54 vs Wimbledon 18/5/50,13/7/50,7/9/50,29/7/54
WEST HAM : vs Berwick 25/4/72 vs Bristol 18/9/51 vs Harringay 12/7/49, vs Wembley 15/7/47,26/3/48,31/8/48,2/8/49,7/4/50,16/4/54(fair)
WIMBLEDON : vs Harringay 10/7/50 vs Southampton 14/9/59 vs Swindon 10/4/61 vs Wembley 11/9/50,23/7/51,17/9/51, 8/10/51,15/8/55,25/6/56 Open 27/3/50, 7/8/50,31/8/59,21/9/59,28/9/59,23/5/60,29/5/61,19/6/61,30/7/62
WISBECH : vs Holbeach 20/9/46
WOLVERHAMPTON : vs Leicester 20/7/62 vs Stoke 29/9/61
WOMBWELL : vs Cradley Heath 22/8/47, 15/10/48 Sheffield vs Middlesbrough (neutral venue challenge)18/6/48
INTERCONTINENTAL FINAL : @ Wembley 26/6/76
FOREIGN Swedish Final : @ Ullevi 21/9/73

OLD ORIGINAL BADGES FOR SWAP :

EDINBURGH : 1953 with 1953 & 1954 blue date bars, silver, horizontal clasp - Gladman & Norman, - same as no.20, Cr - Hal, Old Badge Gallery
HACKNEY : c.1935 with red 1939 date bar - gold horizontal pin fixing, no maker's name, thinner rider, similar to no.35, Cr - Hal, Old Badge Gallery
HASTINGS : 1948 - silver, horizontal pin fixing, no maker's name, similar to no.13, Har - L, Old Badge Gallery
NEW CROSS : 1934 with 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938 & 1939 date bars, gold, buttonhole - A E Poston & Co Ltd similar to no.13, M - P, Old Badge Gallery
WALTHAMSTOW : 1949 - gold, horizontal clasp, Davis, similar to no. 37, R - Wem, Old Badge Gallery
WEMBLEY : 1930s - gold, buttonhole, Caxton Nameplate MFG Westminster SW, similar to no. 34, R - Wem, Old Badge Gallery,
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