Thomas Arthur Price (28 October 1907 - April 1989) was a

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rider who rode for several teams between 1929 and 1937.

Career

Price first rode for

Liverpool Chads Liverpool Chads are a defunct motorcycle speedway team who were based at the Stanley Stadium in Prescot Road, Fairfield, Liverpool, England.Bamford, R & Jarvis J.(2001). ''Homes of British Speedway''. Stroud: Tempus Publishing History Speed ...

in 1929, and rode for both Liverpool and Preston in the 1929 and 1930 seasons.Bamford, Robert (2003) ''Speedway: The Pre-War Years'', Tempus, , p. 214 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.Jones, Alan (2010) ''Speedway in Leicester: The Pre-War Years'', Automedia, p. 186 Price then took a break from the sport, returning for one season in 1934 with

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, and then in 1936 he rode for both Liverpool Chads (in the

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) and Belle Vue Merseysiders (in the

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). He was the captain of the Liverpool team in 1937. He rode in a Provincial League representative team in two matches against Australia in 1937. Price's brothers Ernie Price and Norman Price were also professional speedway riders.

Players cigarette cards

Price is listed as number 37 of 50 in the 1930s Player's

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collection.

References

1907 births 1989 deaths British speedway riders English motorcycle racers Leicester Super riders Preston Speedway riders 20th-century English sportsmen {{England-speedway-bio-stub