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- ↑ "Speedway Tracks Ready" . Daily Herald. 12 February 1931. Retrieved 17 August 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Liverpool company loses suit" . Liverpool Echo. 27 February 1931. Retrieved 17 August 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ Barnes, Julia (1988). Daily Mirror Greyhound Fact File. Ringpress Books. ISBN 0-948955-15-5.
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