LITHGOW (NSW)
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1927 - DONNYBROOK SPORTS GROUNDDonnybrook is a suburb of Lithgow on the Great Western Highway just East of the town, On the 23rd od May 1927 Wrays Motorcycle Club staged a sports day at the Donnybrook Sports Ground, there were plenty of novelty events and match races.
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1947 - DONNYBROOK MINATURE TT CIRCUIT 14th September 1947After the war in 1947 the Lithgow Motorcycle Club constructed a 1/5 mile minature TT circuit, Arace was held on the 14th of September with some 700 spectators. Local rider Jack Ahern won the senior championship with C Morgan of Mudgee a close second.
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1948 - DONNYBROOK MINITURE TT CIRCUIT 1st February 1948
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1951 DONNYBROOK MINATURE TT CIRCUIT April 1951
In April of 1951 the club held an unadvertised closed event with five races but had a good crowd, The senior event was won by Jeff Ward riding a velocette K.S.S. He won two other events.
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1953 - DONNYBROOK MINATURE TT CIRCUIT December 1953
In December of 1953 the club held races with the proceeds going to Jack Ahern who had been selected to represent Australia at the Isle of Mann TT. There were sixteen riders in five races, Bathurst rider Max Conroy set the lap record for the now 3/10 of a mile track at just over thirty seven seconds, Orange riders would win the major prizes.
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1954 - DONNYBROOK MINATURE TT CIRCUIT 14th February 1954
A meeting was held on the 14th of February 1954 when Sydney rider M Green was injured.
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1954 - DONNYBROOK MINATURE TT CIRCUIT April 1954In April of 1954 Orange rider Max Stewart lowered the lap record to 35.4 seconds on his 500cc Triumph. There were over six hundred spectators. This time Max Conroy fell and was taken to hospital but later released. There were complaints that the oiled track was too short.
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1954 - DONNYBROOK MINATURE TT CIRCUIT June 1954
Another meeting was held in June of 1954, Max Stewart once again won the senior race with fellow Bathurst rider Keith Redding on his JAP winning the junior race.
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1954 - DONNYBROOK MINATURE TT CIRCUIT September 1954
There was a TT race planned in September of 1954.
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1954 - DONNYBROOK MINATURE TT CIRCUIT November 1954
It was in the November 1954 proposed meeting that two Gunnedah riders nominated to attend.