Stock-car Racing Tours Uncertain
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WHEN the West Midland Licensing VI' Authority granted M. and M. Coaches, Ltd., Kidderminster, and Messrs. Yarrington Bros., Eardiston, permission to carry people on excursions to stock-car racing events at Hednesford, Birmingham and Coventry, it was stated that the sport might "die a sudden death."
Mr. D. Skelding, for the applicants, said: "It certainly was a craze in the beginning and many thousands of, people visited the three speedways to watch this spectacular new sport. To what extent it will survive when the season starts in 1955 we have no means
of judging." - He added that it became extrema/ difficult to obtain independent evidence at this time of the year to support something which would be functioning during the summer. The applicants had. in. fact, failed to obtain the independent evidence usually required.