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References
- ↑ "Birmingham Hall Green 1929" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ↑ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
- ↑ "Rider averages 1929 to 2009" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
- ↑ "BRITISH LEAGUE TABLES - PRE-WAR ERA (1929-1939)". British Speedway. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ↑ "Decisive win for Perry Barr" . Birmingham Daily Gazette. 14 October 1929. Retrieved 21 August 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Wally Lloyd's feat" . Birmingham Daily Gazette. 23 September 1929. Retrieved 27 September 2024– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ Chaplin, John (1983) "John Chaplin's 'Fireside Stories'", Speedway Star , 3 December 1983, p. 27
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