50th ANNIVERSARY OF SPEEDWAY - COLOUR

(26 Feb 1978) One of the World's most popular sports 'Speedway Racing' celebrated 50 years since it started in Britain. Movietone's archives show speedway during it's rise to popularity in 1929.
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Hoskins did not bring the sport to England and it evolved rather than being invented by one person. He did do much to popularise it though.