Tommy Price (born 1907)

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

Not to be confused with Tommy Price.
Tommy Price
Born1907
Burscough Bridge, Lancashire,
England
Nationality England
Current club information
Career statusRetired
Career history
1929-1930, 1936-1937Liverpool Chads
1929-1930Preston
1931Leicester Super
1934Birmingham Bulldogs
1936-1938Belle Vue Aces/Merseysiders

Career

Price first rode for Liverpool in 1929, and rode for both Liverpool and Preston in the 1929 and 1930 seasons.[1] 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.[2] 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).[1]

He rode in a Provincial League representative team in two matches against Australia in 1937.[1]

Price's brothers Ernie and Norman were also professional speedway riders.[1]

References
  1. Bamford, Robert (2003) Speedway: The Pre-War Years, Tempus, ISBN 0-7524-2749-0, p. 214
  2. Jones, Alan (2010) Speedway in Leicester: The Pre-War Years, Automedia, p. 186


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