As I mentioned here, a few months ago, for several years I sorted the boxes of stuff that Eoin Young had picked up at auctions or autojumbles. One day I came upon a program for a motorcycle speedway meeting in 1937—it was only a sheet of foolscap folded in two, but it will be known for as long as the English language lives.
Before I say why, there are a couple of other points. One is that the event card included races for Midget cars. I had no idea that these had ever taken place in the UK before the War and I still have no idea what the cars were like. My guess is that they were modeled on American quarter-mile Midgets using domestic engines.
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