"I really enjoyed the excellent article on Peter Bradshaw. I loved watching him at West Ham as he was a very entertaining rider and I have often wondered about his background, so the article on him was very interesting. Tony Webb mentioned that Peter had a classic style very similar to Ken McKinlay, which may well have been the case in the early days but by the time he got to West Ham he had developed a style that was very much his own, although slightly reminiscent of Gote Nordin, with his left leg tucked well in, usually right round the white line at West Ham.

He always looked a very classy rider and at the time I really thought that Peter and Martyn Piddock were the future for the Hammers. For most of West Hams hisory there was always seemed to be at least one classy Australian in the side, from Bluey Wilkinson to Jack Young and then Ray Cresp and John Langfield and Peter was undoubtedly part of that hertage."

"I have a few memories of Pete Bradshaw, some of him riding and once when I met him. I those far off days I worked for Dunmow Rural District Council in Essex, where I was a civil and structural engineer. Terry Betts had a garage in the Rodings in our district and Pete and another rider, whose name escapes me, came to our offices one day to discuss aspects of Terry's alterations. Apparently they were working on them. When I went that way I always called in at Terry's garage for fuel and hopefully a chat. I remember, a few years earlier, in 1965, after my beloved Norwich had closed and while, having relocated to Essex, I supported West Ham Hammers. Terry had not ridden in the Stars last season, 1964, but had been persuaded out of 'retirement' for a spell at Long Eaton. This was of short duration ,as he broke his leg after a couple of matches. Speedway Star was speculating as to when Terry would be back for the Archers, but I recall him intimating that he would not be back that year, clearly indicating that he would be with the new Kings Lynn Stars in their first year of league action in 1966. Terry was always to be a favorite of mine, even after I went over 'to the dark side' many years later, and supported Ipswich. Lokeren was very shocking, and sad. We lost Pete Bradshaw, Martyn Piddock ( a great talent) and dear old Phil Bishop, but we should be pleased that Colin Pratt, Stan Stevens, etc., survived (although Colin, a great rider himself, never rode again). Terry was a bit like Ronnie Moore, more interested in the team than the World Final. He had the talent to win it."

Apparently the same mistake was made in the recent article. We've corrected the piece and are happy to print Roger's comments here:

Once again the two matches in Holland on those fateful days have been listed incorrectly! I was there for both these meetings and no matter how I try I cannot get the team names changed. Long long ago one high profile reporter called the team the "Dutch Vikings" this was totally wrong but it has stuck. The teams involved were West Ham (Obviously) and Denmark....yes both teams used Dutch riders. I tried to get this changed again this year when "Classic Speedway" listed the same thing but they decided that even though I was correct it could hardly be called a Danish national team. Not the point of course, it was called Denmark and should remain so, why is it so hard to get History changed? I did offer to "Classic Speedway" that if indeed they want to keep calling the teams by names that suit the team maybe we should start changing some British team names to say for example...Poole v Guest Riders!!!! "

"Despite losing Peter Bradshaw, by the end of the season he still had the fourth-highest average points per match for the Hammers, making him our top `second string` and like most Aussies, he like the wide open large Custom House Track, once he had got used to its size. Martyn Piddock also had a reasonable average, and the `What If` kicks in, what if they had not gone on the fatal trip to Holland to improve their speedway experience, two possible World Champions in the making? "