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In 1928 motor cycle racing on a cinder track began at Stamford Bridge. The following year competitive speedway arrived with
the introduction of the Southern Speedway League consisting of tracks in London and the Midlands. The Stamford Bridge team
won the first National League title in 1932 but the venue closed to speedway that year when greyhound racing was introduced.
The first official meeting of the Stamford Bridge Speedway Supporters' Club was held in 1930 at the Black Bull, Fulham,
and the first members of the Motor Club were enrolled in February 1931. The Supporters' Club disbanded when speedway
left Stamford Bridge and the club became solely a motor and motor cycle club although the name Speedway was retained.
(See brief history of club in DD/1082/28).
The club was affiliated to the South Midland Centre of the Auto-Cycle Union. It met at 12 Lettice Street, Fulham, moving
to The White Hart, The Terrace, Barnes, in October 1937. By December 1961 the club had been renamed the Stamford Bridge
Motor Cycle Club, meeting at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, New Kings Road, Fulham (see secretary's letter and news sheet in Local
History file F798.93) |