Tom Farndon, Bluey Wilkinson, Lionel Van Praag, Tiger Stevenson, Dicky Case, Tommy Croombs John Hoskins, for both were old-school showmen, speedway promoters in the true sense of the word. OK, 'Old pros' if you like. But, by all accounts, the two promotional gentlemen concerned failed to inform the Speedway Control Board, which put its collective foot down, forbidding the match to take place in the style of the official British Individual Championship, and ordering the riders to meet for one race only at each track. Such an imitation as had been planned would, of necessity, detract from what was then the principal competition of the day. And inexorably, events the career of Tom Farndon moved towards his destiny.
More records tumble, and then tragedy.