In 1938, Arthur George Wilkinson became the first West Ham rider to win the World Speedway Championship, and he remains one of the great names of the sport to this day. Bluey, as the diminutive Australian was universally known, carved his name into the annuls of speedway history with a mixture of will, concentration, boldness and power that has rarely been matched by other riders. Wilkinson's story is set in the 1930s and the early days of oval motorcycle racing in Australia and Britain. This was West Ham's golden era, culminating in their Championship year of 1937, and the period in which the Custom House Comet became a true legend. Softback, 160 pages |