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- ↑ "BRITISH LEAGUE TABLES - PRE-WAR ERA (1929-1939)". Official British Speedway website. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ↑ Rogers, Martin (1978). The Illustrated History of Speedway. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. p. 129. ISBN 0-904584-45-3.
- ↑ "Year by Year". Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ↑ "OS County Series Yorkshire 1931". old-maps.co.uk.
- ↑ "Towneley Speedway" . Burnley Express. 9 March 1929. Retrieved 16 August 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Barnsley Speedway". Defunct Speedway Tracks. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
- ↑ "Leeds Dirt Track re-opened" . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 25 March 1929. Retrieved 16 August 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Barnsley Speedway". Defunct Speedway Tracks. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
- ↑ "Speedway Archive". Edinburgh Speedway Blogspot. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
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