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The Maudslay Motor Company was founded in 1901 by Walter Henry Maudslay, grandson of the eminent engineer Henry Maudslay to make marine internal combustion engines at a factory in Parkside, Coventry. [1] He was joined by his son Cyril Charles Maudslay and his nephew Reginald Walter Maudslay, who left in 1903 to found the Standard Motor Company. [2]
Stock cars still take place today. [5] In 2018 former Rye House Stadium promoter Eddie Lesley announced his plans to revamp the site; one of his companies owns the site outright and there are plans for a schooling track.
Motor sports. Stock car racing took place between 1980 and 1987 shortly before the closure of the stadium. Sidecar Racing, Midget Racing and Go Karts were also held ...
Parkside, Barrow-in-Furness, an area and ward in Cumbria; Parkside, Cambridge, one of the streets that bounds Parker's Piece; Parkside, an area of Cleland, North Lanarkshire; Parkside, County Durham, a community; Parkside, Hunslet, a former rugby league stadium in Hunslet, Leeds; Parkside, Shotts, a football ground in Shotts
Motor Rail 4572 1929 ex-Birmingham and Rea District Drainage Board (Water Orton) [2] Motor Rail 5853 1934 Initially hired out to Merton Eng Co Ltd, Feltham via Petrol Loco Hirers Ltd (a Motor Rail subsidiary) and sold to them on 23 May 1934. It changed hands before eventually being acquired by Rev E R (Teddy) Boston at the Cadeby Light Railway ...
The Barnstaple Western Bypass is a congestion-relief scheme designed to take road traffic away from the town centre of Barnstaple, a market town in Devon, South West England. Construction of the new road started in the Spring of 2005 and it was opened on 23 May 2007. Barnstaple Western Bypass during construction Completed bridge over the River Taw
William Rock was born in Barnstaple and educated at Christ's Hospital London, he started a successful printing business and became wealthy. He became a benefactor to the town founding the literary and scientific foundation in 1845, Rock Park in 1879 and North Devon Athenæum in 1888.
It was a short (370 yard) oval tarmac race track, which was used for stock car racing from the mid-1950s until it was closed at the end of 1989. The most regular formula to appear at Aycliffe Stadium was the BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Cars, closely followed by the smaller BriSCA Formula 2 Stock Cars category.