Having difficulty in trying to get information about the husband of one of my grandfather's sisters.
What I know about him is that he was going in for the world speedway championship at White City and rode for a club called Hackney Wike. I have found out that it was the White City in Nottingham. At sometime in the 1930s he was competing for the world championship and he tipped over too far and the rider coming up behind, took the side of his face off and he lost the sight of one eye. That I know to be true as my Mum has a newspaper cutting of him leaving the hospital with his wife Ruth (angel as he called her). I also have been told that he was given freedom of the city of Retford and I can't find anything about that.
He was called Frederick Tate but was known to most people as Nicky.
I am not sure when he built it, but I am told he made a racing car, with an industrial sewing machine for an engine and called it the Yellow Peril. I am told the car still existed in a museum 15 years ago, but unfortunately kids kicked off and the chance to find out more was lost and then they divorced and I haven't seen him since.
So if anyone has an ideas or information or pointers on where I can look, please let me know. MTIA.
What I know about him is that he was going in for the world speedway championship at White City and rode for a club called Hackney Wike. I have found out that it was the White City in Nottingham. At sometime in the 1930s he was competing for the world championship and he tipped over too far and the rider coming up behind, took the side of his face off and he lost the sight of one eye. That I know to be true as my Mum has a newspaper cutting of him leaving the hospital with his wife Ruth (angel as he called her). I also have been told that he was given freedom of the city of Retford and I can't find anything about that.
He was called Frederick Tate but was known to most people as Nicky.
I am not sure when he built it, but I am told he made a racing car, with an industrial sewing machine for an engine and called it the Yellow Peril. I am told the car still existed in a museum 15 years ago, but unfortunately kids kicked off and the chance to find out more was lost and then they divorced and I haven't seen him since.
So if anyone has an ideas or information or pointers on where I can look, please let me know. MTIA.
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