LAKE PERKOLILLI (WA)
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1914 - LAKE PERKOLILLIReports of Motor Picnic and Sports meetings at Lake Perkolilli go back as far as 1914.
Racing events were held for Motorcycles, Sidecars and Motor Cars.
Lake Perkolilli was known throughout the nineteen twenty's and the ninteen thirty's as one of the best natural race tracks surface's in the world, over its life thousand's of motor racing enthusiasts raced around the two mile circuit that was a combination of teracotta clay and salt, A Grand Prix version of the circuit was also used by adding in two chicanes with sandbags.
(Track picture: Terry Walkers around the houses.) |
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Red Dust Revival 2022 at Lake Perkolilli facebook Photo feature.
1920's - The West Australian based Coastal Club at there campsite on the lake. Photo: unknown.
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1923 - THE ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB
Lake Perkolilli had been used for some time by the Goldfields Motorcycle Club for speed events , so in 1923 it was just a progression when the RAC and the motorcycle club organised there first speed weekend, the two mile circuit was surveyed and laid out using round bore casings for the round high speed circuit and sandbags used to mark out the smaller Grand Prix track with its chicanes, racing was in a clockwise direction, situated 35 miles north east of Kalgoorlie near Kanowna just off the Yarri Road, racing would continue at the lake up until 1937 every year except for 1932 and 1933.
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1923 - OSSIE CRANSTON
Ossie had allready made a name for himshelf in motorsport on the grass tracks at Claremont Speedway, because of an injury he changed to car racing, his first meeting was at Lake Perkolilli in a model t Ford called Hezza Henrey, unfortunately an engine failure would end his day.
It would be much later in 1927 that Ossie would be able to reach speeds up to sixtey eight miles per hour, this car would later be sold and a new A model Ford would be built.
It would be much later in 1927 that Ossie would be able to reach speeds up to sixtey eight miles per hour, this car would later be sold and a new A model Ford would be built.
1927 - ARTHUR COLLIVER - CYRIL POOLE & OSSIE CRANSTON Photo: Terry Walkers Around the houses.
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1924 - STAN CATLETT
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1924 - MICK MOYLE
Mick Moyle was considered to be one of the most successful riders to compete at Perkolilli in his erea.
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1925 - THE GOOD MAXWELL CUP 12th April 1925
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1925 - STAN CATLETT
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1927 - THE STATE MOTOR RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS 4th September 1927
State Library of West Australia pictorial feature
1927 - JC SMITH
1927 - JC Smith with his Buick racer. Photo: State Library of West Australia.
1927 - The official time keepers for the 1927 event. Photo: State Library of West Australia.
1927 - Ford and JC Smith's Buick racers. Photo: State Library of West Australia.
1927 - The spectators at the State Motor Racing Championship. Photo: State Library of West Australia.
1927 - The starting line up for the main event. Photo: State Library of West Australia.
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1927 - ARTHUR COLLIVER & SILVERWINGS AT LAKE PERKOLILLI
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Photos: Terry Walkers Around the Houses
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1928 > 1930 - BILL FELTON
Photos: West Australian Motorsport History facebook.
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1928 - LAKE PERKOLILLI CHRYSLER CUP June 1928
State Library of West Australia pictorial feature
1928 - The winner of the Chrysler Cup crosses the line. Photo: State Library of West Australia.
1928 - The second placed car in the Chrysler Cup approaching the finish line. Photo: State Library of West Australia.
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1929 - LAKE PERKOLILLI March 1929
State Library of West Australia photo feature
1929 - A typical line up of cars at Perkolilli. Photo: State Library of West Australia.
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1929 - KALGOORLIE MINER REPORTED
14th August 1929 |
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1930 - LAKE PERKOLILLI SPEED CARNIVAL
August 1930
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1930 - ERIC ARMSTRONG & TRIUMPH IMP AT LAKE PERKOLILLI
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Photos: Terry Walkers Around the Houses
1930's - Eric Armstrong with his Triumph Super 7. Photo: Ken Devine.
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1931 - JAMES (JIM) McMAHON
Old Motor Racing Photographs - Australia facebook feature
1931 - Jim McMahon takes out the state 350 motorcycle championship at Lake Perkolilli. Photo: Ross Lambert.
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1931 - LAKE PERKOLILLI WEST AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 30th August 1931
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1932 - LAKE PERKOLILLI SPORTS 11th September 1932. |
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1936 - ALAN TOMLINSON
Was a young man who first raced at the age of 18 when he joined the WA Sporting Car Club. he would win a stock car handicap race in his Ford V8 car at Lake Perkollili in 1936.
Alan's first attempt at a Grand Prix was in 1937 at Albany, due to a minor crash Alan did not finish the event, allthough he did go on to win two other events Albany and Bunbury shortley after.
Later Alan at the age of 23 would win the Australian Grand Prix at Lobethal in South Australia in 1939.
In 1940 Alan suffered masive injuries after crashing his car in South Australia, he would spend 5 months in hospital.
Alan later returned to Perth with the intension of of rebuilding the car but with the outbreak of World War 2, car racing would cease, Alan dedicated the rest of his life to the WASCC and the Vintage Sports Car Club of WA, Allan Tomlinson died at the age of 95.
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1936 > 1937 - LAKE PERKOLILLI SLIDESHOW
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NEIL BAIRD
Neil Baird in his 1935 Hudson Terraplane awaits his next race at Lake Perkollilli. Photo: Ken Devine collection.
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Kalgoorlie in Pictures facebook pictorial feature
John Browner recalls: Here are some pics of my Grandfarther John "Jack" Browner and his brother Alphonse "Bob" Browner at Lake Perkolilli on race day, I also recall there was a flying 1/4 mile marked out on the Broad Arrow road, that Bob was a regular at.