Tommy Price

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Thomas "Tommy" Price (born 2 December 1911 in Cambridge, England and died 26 December 1997 in Perth, Australia) was an international Speedway rider. In 1949 he won the first Speedway World Championship to be held after the Second World War.

Career

Price started his career with the Wembley Lions in 1935 after only a handful of appearances for Harringay Reserves in the previous season. In 1936 he was loaned out to Cardiff and Nottingham. Within three years he had qualified for his first World Final.

After the war, Price rejoined the Lions and spent a further eleven seasons at the club until he retired in 1956. During that he was a member of the teams that won the National League Championship seven times, and the National Trophy twice.

Price was selected to ride for England in the Ashes series against Australia, but never toured overseas during the winter.

Tommy Price (born 1907)

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Tommy Price (born 1907) was a speedway rider who rode for several teams between 1929 and 1937.

Career

Price first rode for Liverpool in 1929, and rode for both Liverpool and Preston in the 1929 and 1930 seasons. He rode for the Leicester Super team in the Northern League in 1931, scoring maximum points on his debut, but his season was cut short by a fractured elbow. He then took a break from the sport, returning for one season in 1934 with Birmingham Bulldogs, and then in 1936 he rode for both Liverpool (in the Provincial League) and Belle Vue (in the National League).

He rode in a Provincial League representative team in two matches against Australia in 1937.

Price's brothers Ernie and Norman were also professional speedway riders.

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