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CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY 1958
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1958 - THE VISOR MAGAZINE REPORTED.
Published 31st January 1958
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1958 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY. Reported.
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1958 - THE VISOR MAGAZINE. Reported.
Published 28th February 1958
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1958 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY. West Australian TQ Chamionship. Solo's. Sidecar's and Speedcars. 21st March 1958.Wally Higgs is West Australian ChampionOur home town boy of Wally Higgs has tonight won the West Australian Tq Championship here at Claremont Speedway.
Wally beat to the line George Higgs, with young Johnny Anderson finishing third.
The Sidecar boys put on some hard racing, 6 handicap heats in all, the final race of the night went to Dan O'Shea (Cusack), followed by Jim Davies (Melbin) while in third was Al Howells (Van Kirk).
The were two notable emmissions from the
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Solo's tonight as they have both flown out to ride in England, those riders being Chum Taylor and Johnny Chamberlin. That said there was still a star studded field in action. winning there 3 lap clutch start final was Aub Lawson back to Ken Mckinley in 2nd, with Les Saville 3rd and Roger Forsberg 4th.
The Speedcar feature event went to Ray Clark, 2nd Laurie Stevens, 3rd Gordon Bell and Stanley Fairfield in 4th.
1958 - Tom McQuade and Brian Ralson Sidecar's
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1958 - ERIC NICOL & NEIL HOLLANDS Sidecar's
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1958 - HARRY TAYLOR & GRAEME HARRIS Sidecar's
Bill Brown originally built this bike for Harry Taylor with a 650 Triumph engine mounted in it, Harry had raced the outfit for a long period of time and was never phased by the fact he was up against the big 1000cc Vincent's on the big Claremont Showground track, The sheer cost of owning a Vincent engine was way beyond the means of Bill and Harry.
Later on Bill decided to fit a Triumph engine, and it was not unusual for them to remove the engine after racing at Claremont on the Friday night and refit it to a road race frame and compete at Mandurah or Bunbury or Collie in the around the houses events on the Saturday, or at the Caversham Airfield circuit.
(Editorial Ralphy Taylor)
Harry Taylor & Graeme pictured here on Bill Brown twin engine JAP (Photo: Peter Pedro Pascoe collection)
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1958 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY
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1958 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY
9th September 1958
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1958 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY Sidecar's
2nd October 1958
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1958 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY OPENING MEETING 3rd October 1958Claremont Speedway got its 1958 / 1959 season off to a fantastic start on Friday night will the fans filling up every available space, The entire program was action packed with, Solo's, Sidecars and the Speedcars.
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Daily News reported 2nd October 1958 |
3rd October 1958
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10th October 1958.
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16th October 1958
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1958 - DAILY NEWS NEWSPAPER REPORTED
22nd October 1958
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1958 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY GOLDEN HELMET FEATURE |
6th November 1958
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1958 - DAILY NEWS NEWSPAPER REPORTED
26th November 1958
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1958 - ERROL GEORGE REED. Speedcar's.
30th November 1958
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1958 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY PRESS RELEASE.
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1958 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY PRESS RELEASE.
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1958 - JOHNNY STEWART. Speedcar's.
During the 1958 season New South Wales Speedcar driver Johnny Stewart made an appearance at Claremont Speedway, This meeting would be a disaster for Stewart after he rode a wheel in Pit corner and somersaulted many times but was unhurt, With the help of some volunteers the car was repaired during the week and was back on the track the following Friday night.
Photo's Mick Thomson collection.
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1958 - BOB TATTERSALL USA. Speedcar's.
American racer and superstar Bob Tattersall was a regular to all the major tracks around Australia during 1958.