Post by PLUSTAR on Jun 5, 2010 17:35:15 GMT 1
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QUESTIONS FROM JAMES CULBERT
Q WHO DID YOU ENJOY RACING AGAINST IN THE 60S
TS IN PROVINCIAL LEAGUE DAYS ALL TOP RIDERS HOPING TO BEAT THEM
Q WERE YOU EVER A LEG TRAILER
TS YES IN MY "MEN IN BLACK" VINTAGE RACING ON MY 1928 DOUGLAS
Q WHAT KEEPS YOU GOING THESE DAYS
TS "MEN IN BLACK" VINTAGE RACING SPEEDWAY MUSEUM SPEEDWAY SHOWS
AND EXHIBITIONS
QUESTIONS FROM GRASSCUTTER
Q WHAT KIND OFF ENGINE DID YOU USE
TS THERE IS ONLY ONE....THE JAP
Q WHAT WAS YOUR WORST SPEEDWAY INJURY
TS BROKEN LEG AT HACKNEY 1963 NEARLY LOSING MY LEG AT RAYLEIGH 1970
Q HOW MUCH DID A PAIR OF LEATHERS COST IN THE 60’S
TS MY LEATHERS COST £125.00 MADE BY MRS RADLEY. STRATFORD.LONDON.
Q WHAT WAS THE BEST 7 RIDERS YOU RACED WITH
TS ALL THE RAYLEIGH TEAM
Q DO YOU THINK AIRFENCES SHOULD BE FITTED AT ALL SPEEDWAY TRACKS
TS AS YOU CANNOT REALLY SEE ANY RACING ONLY HEADS OF RIDERS ON THE
BENDS....WHAT IS THE POINT
Q DO YOU THINK THE BIKES ARE TO FAST NOWADAYS
TS IN A WORD....YES SLOW THEM DOWN....PUT SOME DIRT ON ALL TRACKS
IT IS JUST LIKE ROAD RACING....NOT SPEEDWAY
QUESTIONS BY BERT HARKINS
Q DID YOU ENJOY WATCHING THE CINE FILMS IN THE HALLWAY IN EASTWOOD
TOLL
TS YES OF COURSE CHERRY ENJOYED
Q DID YOU ENJOY YOUR MEALS AT EASTWOOD TOLL MADE BY BERT’S MOTHER
WAS IT FISH-CHIPS OR MINCE -TATTIES
TS FISH AND CHIPS WERE AT OUR FLAT..POLLOCKSHAWS ROAD MINCE AND
TATTIES WERE AT JOHN FROM GLASGOW'S HOOSE
QUESTIONS BY COOMBES
Q WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE TRACK AND TEAM PARTNER
TS HOME TRACK..RAYLEIGH TEAM PARTNER..BOB YOUNG
AWAY TRACK..MIDDLESBOROUGH AND READING (TILEHURST)
Q YOU STARTED OF IN CYCLE SPEEDWAY, ANY MEMORIES OF THESE DAYS
TS MY FRIEND SANDY MCGILLIVRAY BEING CROWNED BRITISH CHAMPION
HE WAS A MEMBER OF MY TEAM THE GLADIATORS OF ROMFORD
Q TREVOR REDMOND WAS A CHARACTER CAN YOU REMEMBER ANY STUNTS HE
PULLED
TS DROPPING ME FROM GLASGOW TEAM REPLACING ME WITH ENGLISH RIDERS
ON THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE MATCHES. REASON....HE DID NOT HAVE TO PAY
MY TRAVELLING EXPENSES FROM SCOTLAND AND THE SAYING IS .."THE SCOTS
ARE MEAN"?
Q WHAT WAS YOUR PART IN THE NEAR RIOT AT SHEFFIELD IN THE PREMIER
LEAGUE MEETING IN 1964 WHEN POLICE WERE REQUIRED TO RESTORE ORDER
IN THE PITS AFTER AN INCIDENT BETWEEN YOU AND ALAN JAY ....OH AND CHRIS
JULIANS WAS ALSO IN THE RACE SHEFFIELD TIGERS v GLASGOW TIGERS
TS GATE 1 CHRIS JULIAN, GATE 2 CLIVE FEATHERBY, GATE 3 TERRY STONE
GATE 4 ALAN JAYWE ALL SHOT OUT OF THE GATE CHRIS HIT CLIVE,CLIVE IN
TURN HIT ME I HIT ALAN NOWHERE ELSE TO GO ALAN WENT OVER THE
FENCE....HARD RACING THEN I WAS DISQUALIFIED,TREVOR TOLD ME TO
STAY ON THE TRACK, REFEREE STATED THAT I WAS DISQUALIFIED.ON MY
WAY BACK TO THE PITS ALL HELL LET LOOSE ALAN JAY'S FATHER WILF
THREW A PUNCH AT ME, I DUCKED AND CHRIS JULIAN WHO WAS BEHIND ME
LET FLY WITH A PUNCH AT WILF JAY...SAYING "LEAVE MY TEAM PARTNER
ALONE" WE WERE EVENTUALLY ALL PARTED BY PIT OFFICIALS.
I WENT BACK TO THE PITS FOLLOWED BY TREVOR REDMOND WHO THE
STOOD ON A MILK CRATE SHOUTING "WHO'S THE BEST TIGERS" PEOPLE
WERE THROWING THINGS AT ME WHILST I WAS SITTING ON MY TOOL BOX
TREVOR WAS STILL SHOUTING "WHO'S THE BEST TIGERS"
THE RACE WAS EVENTUALLY RE RUN WITHOUT ME.
ON RETURN TO GLASGOW THE NEWS PAPER HEADLINES READ AS FOLLOWS
"SPEEDWAY RIDERS ASSAULTED AT SHEFFIELD"TREVOR REPORTED TO THE
NEWSPAPER ; "IT WAS LIKE A SOUTH AMERICAN RIOT" ALL IN THE NAME OF
PUBLICITY.
Q FOLLOWING ON FROM Q ABOVE THINK THERE WAS A BIT OF BOTHER WHEN
RAYLEIGH WERE AT BERWICK IN THE LATE 60'S - WERE YOU THERE AND DOES
TROUBLE FOLLOW YOU AROUND?
TS TROUBLE CERTAINLY DOES NOT FOLLOW ME AROUND DO NOT THINK I WAS AT
THIS MEETING
QUESTIONS FROM HERBIE
Q IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE YOU RODE FOR THE TIGERS WHAT DO YOU
REMEMBER BEST ABOUT YOUR TIME WITH THE CLUB AND WHY WAS IT? THE
FANS, THE PROMOTION,THE TRACK OR INDIVIDUAL RIDERS.
TS THE TRACK BECAUSE IT WAS SO LONG ON THE STRAIGHTS. YOU USED TO
THINK THAT YOU HAD TO CHANGE GEAR. GREAT FANS STILL IN TOUCH WITH A
LOT OF THEM FLAT SHARING WITH JOE HICKS AND BRUCE OVENDON
JUST BACK FROM STAYING WITH JOE IN NEW ZEALAND ALSO MET UP WITH
BRUCE
Q ARE YOU STILL IN TOUCH WITH ANYONE AT THE CLUB.
TS JOE HICKS, BRUCE OVENDON, MOIRA AND ANDREW LYALL, WALTER GILCHRIST
ALISON GILCHRIST OOR GOOD PAL THE LAIRD OF GLENORCHY....JIMMY
TANNOCK WHO IS A GLASWEGIAN BUT RODE FOR THE OPPOSITION....THE
MONARCHS ALSO RONNIE ANDERSON AND THE "SWALLY TOURS"