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[275 GTB-4]

Pembroke Raceway 1931 (UK, USA or Oz???)

Browsing the NFSA site the other nite...I came across this...does anyone know where Pembroke was??

In 1931 Arthur Butler taxis in to land after flying a `Cowper Swift', the smallest aircraft in the world, from England to Australia. The flight took nine days. Butler, who later founded `Butler Air Transport', is shown with his parents. Other aviators of the time shown are Charles Kingsford-Smith, Charles Ulm, and P.G. Taylor.

Phar Lap, who later died in California, is loaded aboard a ship for transport to America. Peter Pan, the winner of the 1932 Melbourne Cup, is shown at track work, and in England,

Don Bradman clean-bowled in the First Test.

Shale oil is discovered at Glen Davis; a miner leads a donkey laden with bags of shale out of a mine, and the flammability of the shale is demonstrated.

At Pembroke Raceway, a car careers out of control into spectators, killing four and injuring many others.

Edited by 275 GTB-4, 05 March 2011 - 02:11.

[DanTra2858]

Kembla Grange Speedway South of Sydney next to the Kembla Grange Horse Racing Track.

It ran throughout the 1960 covering classes for TQ, Solo Bikes, Sidecars, Sedans, Super Modifieds & Midgets.

[DanTra2858]

For more information on Kembla Grange go to the following site, http://www.vintagesp...com/Kembla.html

[Lee Nicolle]

Just reading the current Australian Muscle Car mag and there is an article on the AIR bowl which really is lost, though I know where it is!!
But realistically I can never se it being used again.
The article is rather short on fact unfortunatly, I suspect a lot of the info comes from John Hughes [ex Speedway Pk promoter and World series Sprintcars promoter] who was one of the stars at AIR.