Fay Taylour

Author : Stephen M Cullen
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399099418
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fay Taylour, 'The World's Wonder Girl' written by Stephen M Cullen and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fay Taylour (1904-1983) remains the most successful female motorsports champion. She defeated the foremost male motorcycle speedway stars of the 1920s and 1930s. A household name in Britain and her native Ireland, she won further fame on the track in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Her successes against men led to a ban on women competing against them in the UK, but Fay Taylour carried on, racing around the world. She also built a new career in long distance car racing and carved a name for herself in the new sport of midget car racing. All of this came to a halt with the outbreak of the Second World War, which, controversially, saw Fay Taylour join Oswald Mosley’s fascist movement and become part of an underground pro-Hitler campaign in London. She was imprisoned for three years by the British authorities. After the war, she was one of the very few pre-war women motorsports champions to return to the track. She re-established her career with highly successful tours in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, before moving to the USA. There she first sold sports cars in Hollywood before returning to midget-car racing across America. Later banned from the USA for her earlier politics, she again took to racetracks around the world, competing against the world’s best well into her fifties. This first full biography of Fay Taylour is based on her extensive personal papers, media reports of her racing career around the world, and decades of UK government security files. It covers Taylour’s life on and off the track, her struggles with sports and security authorities, her battles against anti-female prejudices, and her many passionate love affairs.

Author : Jean François Bouzanquet
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1845842251
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fast Ladies written by Jean François Bouzanquet and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took a great deal of determination on the part of women to sweep aside male resistance from the inner circles of the motoring world. A veritable saga with a wealth of illustrations spanning almost a century of motor racing. Over forty unique portraits of daring, brave women who took part in speed records events, rallies and Grand Prix races.

Author : Reg Fearman
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075096099X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Both Sides of the Fence written by Reg Fearman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Reg Fearman is the man who knows all of speedway's secrets ... and is prepared to reveal them. He has taken a unique, full-throttle, white-knuckle ride to the top as an international rider, a world-class team manager, a successful promoter and a formidable administrator. He has never ducked a confrontation, on or off the speedway track; he knows the glamorous and the murky side of a tough, fabulously exciting and sometimes cruel sport, and he spares no one's blushes ... not even his own' - John Chaplin, speedway's leading historian 'From humble origins in London's East End, this is the story of how Reg Fearman became a local hero with West Ham, the cockney giants of speedway, and went on to represent his country, first as a rider at the tender age of 17, and then as an international manager. A captivating mixture of sporting achievement, politics and business and social history, it also looks at how speedway was resurrected from the doldrums of the late 1950s and dragged into a new 'Jet Age' golden era, a time which paved the way for the heights that the sport has enjoyed in the twenty-first century as a global phenomenon. Including a plethora of untold truths, revelations and a rich treasure trove of photographs, Reg lays bare for the first time the sensational inside story of the resurrection of speedway ... warts and all!' - Dr Brian Belton, JP and author

Author : Anthony Brian Webb
Publisher : Boolarong Press
ISBN 13 : 1921555505
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speedway Tonight written by Anthony Brian Webb and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early days at Davies Park grew the international sport of speedway racing in Australia, Great Britain and South America. He laid the foundations for a sport that is followed by thousands of dedicated fans. Many of the present day methods of speedway promoting and presentation can be traced back to that glorious period in 1927-1932 at Davies Park, West End, Brisbane in Queensland.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irish Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 654 pages
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Author : Jean Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131774666X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One written by Jean Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an historical survey of women’s sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the more recent methodological approaches to writing sports history and raises questions about how the history of women’s sport has so far been shaped by academic writers. Questions explored in this text include: What are the fresh perspectives and newly available sources for the historian of women’s sport? How do these take forward established debates on women’s place in sporting culture and what novel approaches do they suggest? How can our appreciation of fashion, travel, food and medical history be advanced by looking at women’s involvement in sport? How can we use some of the current ideas and methodologies in the recent literature on the history and sociology of sport in order to look afresh at women’s participation? Jean Williams’s original research on these topics and more will be a useful resource for scholars in the fields of sports, women’s studies, history and sociology.

Author : Brian Belton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954791247
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fay Taylour written by Brian Belton and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fay Taylour was the most successful woman speedway rider -- ever. Her short but meteoric career spanned just a few years in the late 1920s until women were banned from the Speedway in 1930. In these few years Fay made a name for herself first in Trials riding, in which she won several Gold Medals, and then in Speedway, one of the toughest of all sports on a motorcycle. Fay competed against, and beat, most of the well known male speedway riders in the UK, Australia and New Zealand and became something of a legend -- the Queen of Speedway! This book is a biography of Fay and especially her motorcycle years in trials and speedway. It is a fascinating account of a truly remarkable woman and the early years of speedway in England, Australia and New Zealand.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spare Rib written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
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