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References
- 1 2 "Halifax (Thrum Hall) Speedway". Defunct Speedway. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ↑ "OS County Series 1933". old-maps.co.uk.
- ↑ "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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