Arthur George "Bluey" Wilkinson (27 August 1911 – 27 July 1940) was an Australian speedway rider. Wilkinson was Speedway World Champion in 1938 after narrowly...
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football player Bluey Wilkinson (1911–1940), Australian speedway rider Robert Bluey (born 1979), American conservative blogger and journalist Bluey, the stage...
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footballer Jack Watkins (1893-1974), Australian rugby league footballer Bluey Wilkinson (1911–1940), Australian speedway rider Billy Wilson (Australian rugby...
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homage to the speedway greats associated with West Ham, including Bluey Wilkinson and Jack Young. The West Ham Hammers team were involved in the top...
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Champion. The riders who qualified for the Final were Lionel Van Praag, Bluey Wilkinson, Dicky Smythe, Billy Lamont and Jack Chapman (Australia), with Harry...
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Great Britain Soldier, writer. Brough Superior SS100 Wareham, Dorset Bluey Wilkinson July 27, 1940 28 Australia Speedway rider Bondi, New South Wales Mario...
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Wembley Stadium Lionel Van Praag (26+3 pts) Eric Langton (26+2 pts) Bluey Wilkinson (25 pts) 1937 details London Wembley Stadium Jack Milne (28 pts) Wilbur...
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West Ham Hammers outfit. West Ham Hammers riders included Australians Bluey Wilkinson, Jack Young and Aub Lawson, Swedish riders Björn Knutson, Christer...
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from Bluey Wilkinson and Norman Evans. Harry Whitfield would win the Final at the Sydney Showground from Australians Billy Lamont and Bluey Wilkinson. On...
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Championship and later that year won the 1937 World Championship. Bluey Wilkinson won the 3 & 4 Lap Australian Championships in 1938 before also going...
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competitors including future Speedway World Champions Lionel Van Praag and Bluey Wilkinson. Wentworth Park was the site of Sydney's first ever Speedcar race on...
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Those who rode them during their career included 1938 World Champion Bluey Wilkinson of Australia, who started his speedway career in 1928 on a battered...
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Australia's 1939 spring league and was recruited by Sheffield Tigers manager Bluey Wilkinson. He began his British leagues career riding for Sheffield during the...
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rider. The Championship was won by the 28 year-old Australian Arthur 'Bluey' Wilkinson, in front of a new record crowd for speedway of 95,000. The newspapers...
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and Bill Pitcher. Despite being unbeaten in the Final, Australian Bluey Wilkinson only finished third as the Championship was decided by bonus points...
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champion Lionel Van Praag (Australia), Jack Milne (United States), Bluey Wilkinson (Australia), Tommy Price (England), Freddie Williams (Wales), Jack...
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domestic servant for a medical practitioner. She married Stace in 1942. Bluey Wilkinson (1911–1940), born in Millthorpe; international speedway rider, 1938...
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George Fuller, 22nd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1861) 27 July – Bluey Wilkinson, speedway rider (b. 1911) 30 July Arthur Merric Boyd, painter (b. 1862)...
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1 10 Les Patrick 1 14 Phil Bishop 0 14 Ron Johnson 0 14 Fred Strecker 0 14 Colin Stewart 0 14 Sid Edmonds 0 14 Harold Hastings 0 14 Bluey Wilkinson 0...
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Lionel Van Praag, with Englishman Eric Langton second and Australian Bluey Wilkinson third. September 13 – In response to a polio outbreak, Chicago Public...
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Tommy Croombs 1 =12 Bill Clibbett 1 =16 Norman Parker 0 =16 Ron Johnson 0 =16 Syd Jackson 0 =16 Joe Francis 0 =16 Bluey Wilkinson 0 =16 Eric Collins 0...
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Showground Speedway Sydney Wilbur Lamoreaux () Bluey Wilkinson 1938/39 Sydney Sports Ground Sydney Bluey Wilkinson 1939/40 Sydney Sports Ground Sydney Vic Duggan...
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Holder became Speedway World Champion, joining Lionel Van Praag (1936), Bluey Wilkinson (1938), Jack Young (1951, 1952), Jason Crump (2004, 2006, 2009), and...
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West Ham riders as voted in Speedway '72 magazine published in 1972. Bluey Wilkinson* Jack Young* Tiger Stevenson Tommy Croombs Björn Knutson Arthur Atkinson...
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out so there were only 7 teams, 6 of which were located in London. Bluey Wilkinson of West Ham Hammers topped the rider averages. The only non-London...
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cricketer. B. Linden Webb (1884–1968), Methodist minister and pacifist. Bluey Wilkinson (1911–1940), Australian speedway rider, Individual World Champion in...
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Series Rider Season article Speedway World Championship Bluey Wilkinson 1938 Individual Speedway World Championship...
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Australian rules footballer (Melbourne) and cricketer (d. 2004) 27 August – Bluey Wilkinson, speedway rider (d. 1940) 30 August – Ted Harris, Queensland politician...
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Price 5.37 Wally Lloyd 5.00 Gus Kuhn 5.00 Colin Watson 2.00 West Ham Bluey Wilkinson 10.23 Eric Chitty 9.37 Tommy Croombs 8.92 Arthur Atkinson 8.54 Tiger...
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2017 Hall of Fame inductee Coral Taylor - 2017 Hall of Fame inductee Bluey Wilkinson - 2017 Hall of Fame inductee 37°52′30″S 145°02′28″E / 37.874973°S...
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