Speedway: Belle Vue Aces v King's Lynn (17 July 1976)

Challenge Match: Peter Collins (red) v Chris Morton (white)

(There should have been a race between Peter Collins and Mal Simmons of Wolves for the Golden Helmet, but presumably Simmons was indisposed)

Alan Wilkinson

Heat 1: Terry Betts

Heat 3: Michael Lee (yellow/black), Ray Bales (white) & Chris Morton (blue)

Heat 5: Terry Betts

Heat 6: Kristian Praestbro (blue), Alan Wilkinson (red), Ian Turner (white) & Pete Smith (yellow/black)

Match result: Belle Vue Aces 47 King's Lynn 31

Speedway: Belle Vue Aces v Cradley (10 July 1976)

Heat 1: Alan Wilkinson

Heat 2: Steve Bastable

Heat 3: Chris Morton (blue) & Arthur Price (yellow/black)

Heat 4: Bruce Cribb (white) & Steve Bastable (yellow/black)

Heat 4: Peter Collins

Match Result: Belle Vue Aces 48 Cradley 30

Speedway: Grand Prix Qualifying Round (3 July 1976) at Belle Vue Stadium

Peter Collins (Belle Vue Aces) before the start of Heat 1

Heat 1: Peter Collins (Belle Vue Aces)

Heat 3: Dave Morton (Hackney Hawks)

Heat 4: Scott Autrey (Exeter Falcons) in white and Doug Wyer (Sheffield Tigers) in blue

Heat 5: Reide Eider (Leicester Lions) in white and Keith White (Hackney Hawks) in blue

Start of Heat 6: Doug Wyer (Sheffield Tigers) in red, Dave Morton (Hackney Hawks) in blue, Russ Hodgson (Belle Vue Aces) in white and Christer Sjosten (Poole Pirates) in yellow/black

Geoff Pusey (Belle Vue Aces)

Alan Wilkinson (Belle Vue Aces) before the start of Heat 7

Heat 7: Chris Morton (Belle Vue Aces) in white and Steve Gresham (Newport Wasps) in yellow/black

Finn Thomsen (Wolverhampton Wolves) before the start of Heat 9

The final placings were:

          1st        Peter Collins (Belle Vue Aces)       14 points

          2nd       Scott Autrey (Exeter Falcons)        13 points

          3rd=      Dave Morton (Hackney Hawks)     12 points

          3rd=      Doug Wyer (Sheffield Tigers)         12 points

Speedway: Belle Vue Aces v Oxford (9 August 1975)

Soren Sjosten before the start of Heat 1

Heat 1: Dag Lovaas (white) & Alan Wilkinson (red)

Chris Morton before the start of Heat 3

Paul Tyrer before the start of Heat 3

Heat 3: Chris Morton (red) & Richard Greer (yellow/black)

Heat 4: Doug Wyer (red), Russ Hodgson (blue) & John Dews (yellow/black)

Match Result: Belle Vue Aces 45 Oxford 33

Speedway: Belle Vue Aces v Wimbledon (5 July 1975)

Another Gulf Oil British League speedway meeting at Belle Vue and now I had my telephoto lens.

Heat 1: Soren Sjosten (red), Paul Tyrer (blue) & Barry Briggs (white)

Heat 1: Barry Briggs

Heat 2: Reg Luckhurst (yellow/black), Graham Banks (white), Russ Hodgson (blue) & Geoff Pusey (red)

Heat 3: Ed Stangeland (white), Chris Morton (red) & Roger Johns (yellow/black)

Heat 4: Peter Collins (red), Tommy Jansson (white) & Geoff Pusey (blue)

Heat 5: Ed Stangeland (yellow/black), Chris Morton (red) & Alan Wilkinson (blue)

Heat 6: Soren Sjosten 

Match Result: Belle Vue Aces 53 Wimbledon 25

Speedway: Belle Vue Aces v Oxford (28 June 1975)

This is one of my early photographic attempts at Belle Vue speedway stadium and before I got a telephoto lens for my camera.

Soren Sjosten on his way to the start line for heat 1

Heat 1: Soren Sjosten (red), Paul Tyrer (blue), Richard Greer (white) & John Dews (yellow/black)

Heat 3: Chris Morton (red), Alan Wilkinson (blue) & Eddie Davison (yellow/black)

Heat 4: Gordon Kennett (yellow/black) & Dag Lovaas (white)

Match Result: Belle Vue Aces 42 Oxford 36