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