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- ↑ "BRITISH LEAGUE TABLES - PRE-WAR ERA (1929-1939)". Official British Speedway website. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ↑ "Year by Year". Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ↑ "On the speedway" . Daily Mirror. 24 May 1930. Retrieved 15 August 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "King's Oak speedway". Retro Speedway. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
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