HISTORICAL BOXFORD PRESS



HISTORICAL BOXFORD PRESS
1944

 


The Daily Mirror
01 May 1944

George Smith motor-cycle trick rider, rode on the Wall of Death under the name of "Tornado Smith"
He has just volunteered for NFS dispatch riding overseas, and has bee sent to a dispatch riding school to learn how to ride a motor-cycle.

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Suffolk & Essex Free Press
20 January 1944

"Tornado" Smith, who used to ride the "Wall of Death" on his motor-cycle at Sudbury and Southend, writes: "When I was at home at Boxford the other day I noticed that most folk around that way are fidgety; with an eye on post-war. You all seem to be saying, 'If this is World War No. 2, - we've had it!' Although you all, as a community have experienced as much as any community outside London and Coventry the excitement and awareness of war-winning activity you all modestly seem to be saying, 'any more to come - glad to take it, but let's get going on reconstruction!' This is supplementary summary by Smithy of his Suffolk's as a jettison from a jet-propulsion plane. That's all for now!"

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