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all joined Nottingham. A few days later, the team without their star riders suffered an embarrassing 57–15 defeat at Plymouth on 9 June. This was their last fixture and the team pulled out of the Provincial Trophy and Provincial League, having their season record expunged.
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Speedway took place at Sloper Road during the inaugural British speedway season of 1928. A speedway track was constructed in November 1928 by the Provincial Dirt Tracks Cardiff Ltd, with the first meeting held on Boxing Day 1928.
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Although speedway returned to Cardiff in 1935, there was no league affiliation until 1936, when Mr B. Southouse (the Cardiff speedway manager for the
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In early June, the GRA announced that due to poor attendances there would be no further meetings held at the track. The star riders,
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After two more seasons of speedway meetings in 1929 and 1930, it is evident that speedway ended for a four year period.
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organisation and later a league team. The speedway operated from 1928 until its closure in 1936. The venue was the
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Index

Cardiff Dragons
White City Stadium
Cardiff
Provincial League
motorcycle speedway
White City Stadium
Bill Clibbett
Greyhound Racing Association
Provincial League
1936 Provincial Speedway League
National trophy
Southampton Saints
Ted Bravery
Cliff Parkinson
George Greenwood
Tommy Price




"Cardiff White City"
"Gone but not forgotten, White City and Penarth Stadiums"
"Dirt Racing track"
British Newspaper Archive
"Dirt track racing in Nottingham again"
British Newspaper Archive
"Cardiff track preparations"
British Newspaper Archive
"Rider averages 1929 to 2009"
"Year by Year, 1936"

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