The Speedway Years - 1953

We highlight the sports great achievements in a very special Coronation Year!
Top journalist Alan Robertson ‘starts the tapes rising’ with his usual excellent season review and highlights some of the facts long since forgotten.
The Wembley Lions take Division One of the National League and we look in-depth at their great triumph and that also of Second Division Coventry Bees who certainly had a sting in their tail.
Sir Edmund Hilary presents Freddie Williams with his second World Championship title in an action packed final at Wembley, and we look back at the Welsh Wizard’s second success and try to come up with some sense of the farce that was the Southern League title shenanigans between Rayleigh and Exeter.
We bring you all the stats, facts, results and cup details as well as a comprehensive look at the England Australia test series in this amazing issue.