Terence Frank Small (6 January 1927 – 10 December 1983) was an international

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

rider from England. He earned one international cap for the

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Biography

Small, born in Southampton, raced grasstrack in Egypt, while serving with the British Army. He began his British leagues career riding for

Poole Pirates Poole Pirates (also known as Poole Speedway) are a motorcycle speedway team based in Poole, England, competing in the SGB Championship. The club have been the List of United Kingdom speedway league champions, champions of the United Kingdom on ...

during the

1949 Speedway National League Division Three The 1949 National League Division Three was the third season of British speedway's National League Division Three. The league expanded to 13 teams from 12. Cradley Heath, Southampton and Coventry had all moved up to Division Two whilst Wombwel ...

season. He quickly became a regular in the team and made significant progress over the following two seasons, averaging an impressive 9.60 during the 1951 season. The 1951 season ended with honours as Poole won the league title. Poole moved up a division in 1952 and Small was an integral part of the team when they won the league and cup double with relative ease. He became a fans favourite and was still with the club when they won another league and cup double during the 1955 season. He rode once for

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in 1957 before deciding to take a break form speedway. He returned to Poole for two more seasons from 1958 to 1959. When he retired, he had ridden 296 times for Poole and scored 2165 points. He was inducted into the Poole Hall of Fame in 1994.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Small, Terence 1927 births 1983 deaths British speedway riders Poole Pirates riders