Arthur Forrest (5 January 1932 in

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– 2000) was a former international

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who qualified for the

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finals five times.Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2002). ''A History of the World Speedway Championship''. Stroud: Tempus Publishing.

Career summary

Forrest started his career with the

Halifax Dukes The Halifax Dukes were a Speedway team which operated from 1949–1951 and again from 1965 until their closure in 1985 at The Shay Stadium in Halifax. The team were nicknamed the "Dukes" after the local Duke of Wellington's Regiment, whose tra ...

in the National League Division Three. In his opening season aged just seventeen he scored nineteen maximums (unbeaten by an opponent) from fifty meetings. The following season the Dukes rode in National League Division Two, but Forrest carried on from the previous season, actually raising his average.Pavey,A. (2004) ''Speedway in the North-West'', Tempus Publishing Ltd. Whilst with the Dukes he was called up to ride for

at only eighteen years of age.Foster, P. (2005) ''History of the Speedway Ashes'', The History Press Ltd. After a third season with the Dukes in 1951 he joined hometown club, the

Bradford Tudors The Odsal Tudors or Bradford Tudors were a motorcycle speedway team based at Odsal Stadium in Bradford from 1950 to 1960.Bamford, R & Jarvis J.(2001). ''Homes of British Speedway''. History At the end of July 1950 the Odsal Tudors replaced th ...

in 1952. The Tudors competed in National League Division One and Forrest rode so well he became top of the teams

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, and qualified for the first of his five World final appearances. He remained with the Tudors until 1957 before joining the

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but his career seemed to have already peaked in 1956 when he finished in third place of the

after beating

Peter Craven Peter Theodore Craven
, fansite biography by Jim Blanchard. (accessed 12 July 2006). (21 June 1934 – 2 ...

in a run off. At the end of the 1959 season, Forrest retired from speedway at only twenty six years of age.

World final appearances

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– 9th – 7pts *

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

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– 8th – 7pts *

1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

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– 10th – 5pts *

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

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– 9th – 7pts *

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...

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– 3rd – 11pts + 3pts

References

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