The Rayleigh Rockets were a Speedway team which operated from 1949 until their closure in 1973 from the Rayleigh Weir Stadium in Rayleigh, Essex .[1][2]
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^"Rayleigh Speedway". Defunct Speedway. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
The RayleighRockets were a Speedway team which operated from 1949 until their closure in 1973 from the Rayleigh Weir Stadium in Rayleigh, Essex . The...
replaced an old greyhound racing track. The RayleighRockets rode at the Rayleigh Weir Stadium in Rayleigh, Essex, until 1973 when it was announced that...
Caffrey, and Stuart Mountford RayleighRockets Speedway Provincial League, Metropolitan League Rayleigh Weir Stadium, Rayleigh, Essex 1949 1973 Rochdale Hornets...
Division Two season, when he rode for RayleighRockets. The following season in 1971, while still riding for Rayleigh, he improved his average significantly...
Leo Peter McAuliffe (16 December 1933 – 13 December 2017) was an international motorcycle speedway rider from Wales. He earned one international cap for...
league. Ipswich Witches and Southampton Saints were new entrants. RayleighRockets were champions whilst Long Eaton Archers withdrew mid-season. George...
(nuclear thermal rocket). Chemical rockets are powered by exothermic reduction-oxidation chemical reactions of the propellant: Solid-fuel rockets (or solid-propellant...
Bethnal Green, London, began his British leagues career riding for RayleighRockets during the 1949 Speedway National League Division Three season. During...
Devils who raced in challenge matches from 1960 unil 1966. In 1974, RayleighRockets closed down but the promotion, riders and nickname moved to Rye House...
the team pulled out of the league in 1954. He consequently joined RayleighRockets and for the next four years rode for the club despite his advancing...
in the second division. Progress in 1972 for West Ham Bombers and RayleighRockets saw him get further division one opportunities for Leicester Lions...
he rode for RayleighRockets. He was part of the Rayleigh team that won the 1952 Speedway Southern League. The following season Rayleigh repeated the...
for RayleighRockets during the 1949 Speedway National League Division Three season. It was the inaugural league season of speedway at Rayleigh organised...
Wolverhampton Wasps moved up and Oxford Cheetahs came down to replace them. RayleighRockets were champions for a second consecutive season whilst Cardiff Dragons...
McGillivray, born in Islington, began his British leagues career riding for RayleighRockets during the 1949 Speedway National League Division Three season, where...
Rayleigh Weir Stadium was a speedway, greyhound racing and stock car stadium in Weir between Rayleigh and Thundersley in England. It is not to be confused...
another league and cup double during the 1955 season. He rode once for RayleighRockets in 1957 before deciding to take a break form speedway. He returned...
British leagues career riding for RayleighRockets during the 1957 Speedway National League season. He left Rayleigh for Poole Pirates in 1958 and stayed...
and Edinburgh Monarchs (1954), Bradford Panthers (formerly Odsal) & RayleighRockets (1957). The remaining two teams were Poole Pirates, who joined from...
Wimbledon Dons 1946-1953 New Cross Rangers 1953-1956 Wembley Lions 1957 RayleighRockets 1958 Poole Pirates Team honours 1948, 1953 National League Champion...
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