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Halifax Speedway were a British motorcycle speedway team who operated between 1928 and 1930 and were based at Thrum Hall Cricket Ground, Spring Hall Lane, Halifax, West Yorkshire. England.

History

The Thrum Hall cricket ground had a dirt track constructed around the cricket pitch in 1928 by the Halifax District Cycle and Light Car Club. The first dirt track event (speedway) held at the track was on 2 May 1928.

The speedway team arrived and competed in the inaugural 1929 Speedway English Dirt Track League, with the first home league fixture being held at the track on 27 April 1929 against White City Speedway (Manchester), in front of 6,000 spectators. The team finished the season in third place.

Halifax decided not to enter a team for the 1930 season and the following year the track was demolished to make way for a greyhound track that became the Halifax Greyhound Stadium.

Season summary

References

1. ^ "Halifax (Thrum Hall) Speedway". Defunct Speedway. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
2. "OS County Series 1933". old-maps.co.uk.
3. "Yorkshire Motor Cycling Events". Leeds Mercury. 26 June 1928. Retrieved 12 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
4. "1928 fixtures" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
5. "Halifax Beaten". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 29 April 1929. Retrieved 12 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
6. "Year by Year". Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
7. "BRITISH LEAGUE TABLES - PRE-WAR ERA (1929-1939)". Official British Speedway website. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
8. Genders, Roy (1981). The Encyclopedia of Greyhound Racing. Pelham Books Ltd. ISBN 07207-1106-1.

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