Dene Davies (born 23 January 1947 in
Hindmarsh
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* Alfred Hindmarsh, MP for Wellington South (New Zealand electorate) and first leader of the New Zealand Labour Party
*Ian Hindmarsh, Australian rugby league player
* Jean Hindm ...
,
South Australia) is a retired Australian
motorcycle speedway
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rider.
Career
Davies competed in
sidecar racing with his brother in Australia, and then in
scrambling, in which became a close friend of
John Boulger, who later encouraged him to travel to England to try to establish himself as a speedway rider.
[White, Peter (1969) "From Sidecars to Solos", '']Speedway Post
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'', October 1969, p. 26-7
Davies had first taken up speedway in 1966, and had several races at Adelaide's
Rowley Park Speedway in 1966 and 1967.
Davies travelled to Britain where he signed for the newly formed
Leicester Lions in 1968, initially riding in the junior team.
[Jones, Alan (2010) ''Speedway in Leicester: The Lions Roar'', Automedia, p. 163] After one appearance in the
British League for Leicester he was loaned out to
Reading Racers, also in their inaugural season, getting injured in his first match for the team, but
averaging over five points from eighteen matches, also making one further appearance for Leicester in the Midland Cup Final.
, speedwayplus.com, retrieved 2012-03-16 He stayed with Reading in 1969 and 1970, before moving to Teesside Teessiders in 1971, also riding for Romford Bombers
The Romford Bombers were a speedway team which operated from 1969 until their closure in 1971.
History
In 1969, a team known as the Rochester Bombers started the 1969 British League Division Two season, at Rochester in Kent. However the local co ...
that year, his last in British speedway.
References
1947 births
Living people
Australian speedway riders
Leicester Lions riders
Reading Racers riders
Middlesbrough Bears riders
Australian expatriate speedway riders in England
Romford Bombers riders
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