(1911-08-27)27 August 1911 Millthorpe, New South Wales, Australia
Died
27 July 1940(1940-07-27) (aged 28) Bondi, New South Wales, Australia
Career history
1929-1938
West Ham Hammers
Individual honours
1938
World Champion
1935, 1938, 1938 (3 & 4 Lap)
Australian Champion
1935, 1938, 1939
NSW State Champion
1932
Dirt Track Championnat du Monde
1938
Scottish Champion
1938
Tom Farndon Memorial winner
Team honours
1937
National League Champion
1937
Coronation Gold Cup Best Pairs
1938
ACU Cup
Arthur George "Bluey" Wilkinson (27 August 1911 – 27 July 1940)[1] was an Australian speedway rider. Wilkinson was Speedway World Champion in 1938 after narrowly missing out on winning the inaugural Championship in 1936.[2]
^Belton, Brian (2004). Bluey Wilkinson. ISBN 0-7524-2872-1
^Montague, Trevor (2004). The A-Z of Sport. Little, Brown. p. 532. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
Arthur George "Bluey" Wilkinson (27 August 1911 – 27 July 1940) was an Australian speedway rider. Wilkinson was Speedway World Champion in 1938 after narrowly...
Champion. The riders who qualified for the Final were Lionel Van Praag, BlueyWilkinson, Dicky Smythe, Billy Lamont and Jack Chapman (Australia), with Harry...
from BlueyWilkinson and Norman Evans. Harry Whitfield would win the Final at the Sydney Showground from Australians Billy Lamont and BlueyWilkinson. On...
Championship and later that year won the 1937 World Championship. BlueyWilkinson won the 3 & 4 Lap Australian Championships in 1938 before also going...
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and Bill Pitcher. Despite being unbeaten in the Final, Australian BlueyWilkinson only finished third as the Championship was decided by bonus points...
rider. The Championship was won by the 28 year-old Australian Arthur 'Bluey' Wilkinson, in front of a new record crowd for speedway of 95,000. The newspapers...
West Ham Hammers outfit. West Ham Hammers riders included Australians BlueyWilkinson, Jack Young and Aub Lawson, Swedish riders Björn Knutson, Christer...
Australia's 1939 spring league and was recruited by Sheffield Tigers manager BlueyWilkinson. He began his British leagues career riding for Sheffield during the...
competitors including future Speedway World Champions Lionel Van Praag and BlueyWilkinson. Wentworth Park was the site of Sydney's first ever Speedcar race on...
Lionel Van Praag, with Englishman Eric Langton second and Australian BlueyWilkinson third. September 13 – In response to a polio outbreak, Chicago Public...
often had among their ranks Speedway World Champions Lionel Van Praag, BlueyWilkinson, and later Jack Young. During its 18 years of operation, the Sports...
out so there were only 7 teams, 6 of which were located in London. BlueyWilkinson of West Ham Hammers topped the rider averages. The only non-London...
2017 Hall of Fame inductee Coral Taylor - 2017 Hall of Fame inductee BlueyWilkinson - 2017 Hall of Fame inductee 37°52′30″S 145°02′28″E / 37.874973°S...
West Ham riders as voted in Speedway '72 magazine published in 1972. BlueyWilkinson* Jack Young* Tiger Stevenson Tommy Croombs Björn Knutson Arthur Atkinson...
Holder became Speedway World Champion, joining Lionel Van Praag (1936), BlueyWilkinson (1938), Jack Young (1951, 1952), Jason Crump (2004, 2006, 2009), and...
Showground Speedway Sydney Wilbur Lamoreaux () BlueyWilkinson 1938/39 Sydney Sports Ground Sydney BlueyWilkinson 1939/40 Sydney Sports Ground Sydney Vic Duggan...
Whitfield from Australian's Billy Lamont and future World Champion BlueyWilkinson. During the 1960s and 1970s the Showground was Australia's best known...
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