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Rowley park speedway is a former dirt track racing venue that was located on torrens road in brompton, south australia and supplanted the kilburn speedway 19461951 and the earlier camden motordrome 19351941. Allan batt has produced a landmark book about the life and times of barry butterworth while tony loxley has prepared a number of excellent books about australian speedway. They are arthur atkinson england 1930, wal morton england 1936, ken mckinlay scotland 1966, ove fundin sweden 1969, ivan mauger new zealand 1973, simon cross england 1987 and rob. Former resident writes book on spencer speedway history. Boomerang books australian book specialist with a large number of titles available online. Simmo in his own words world finals of the 70s world finals of the 80s mike the bike the michael lee story booey the nigel boocock story mark loram the peoples champion shooey life and times of shawn moran simmos super brits mort the chris morton story rayleigh rockets history of canterbury speedway west ham memories ivan, the mauger interview speedway in the 1970s speedway in. The 14 mile later 38 mile dirt track spawned a number of talented drivers and was built in 1948, closing for good in 1983. Full throttle publishings speedway motorsport books include sprintcars 2. Chum taylor, who won his first championship in 1958 at perths claremont speedway, is next with five wins, his last in 1970.
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