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These pages are adapted from archives of the site by Chris Byles known as The Workshop - Speedwayand GrassTrack Machines previously at speedwaybikes.fortunecity.net and at exeter-falcons.demon.co.uk
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The sites have been offline for some time, but versions are available at the Wayback Machine. If the originalowner would care to discuss, please make contact.
A list of the archive files may be found here: Speedway Workshop Archive
| General Bikes On The Bench | ||
| Year | Machine | Detail |
| 1926 | AJS | The AJS 'Special Racing' GR7 Big Port. |
| 1951 | AJW | The AJW 'Speedfox' machine. |
| 1950 | Apfelbeck | A rare Machine from Vienna |
| 1983 | Bellini | The Italian Bellini Engines. |
| Benelli | A rare Italian Dirt track machine. | |
| 199? | BM500 | The latest Czech machine |
| 1929 | BSAS29 | The Poor Man's Speedway machine |
| 197? | B.S.A | The British Mk1 and Mk2 BSA |
| 1929 | Calthorpe | The 350cc Calthorpe 'SpeedwaySpecial' |
| 19?? | Champion | A 'Champion' Framed JAP (we think) |
| 1973 | ColeMK3 | The Cole and Elstar Cole Machines |
| 1985 | Comet | The Comet with the 'Flexiflyer'frame |
| 1929 | Coventry-Victor | The 488cc OHV Flat twin. |
| 1934 | Crocker | The American Crocker DT machine. |
| 1984 | Datzmann | The German Speedway and Longtracker. |
| 1978 | Denco | The Revolutionary engine fromN.Zealand |
| 1966 | TheDirtrax | Bert Kingston's Australian Dirtrax |
| 19?? | D.K.W | Information needed on the GermanDKW |
| 1928 | Douglas | The - RA, DT, Langton and RedDevil |
| 197? | DR500 | The German engine designed forLongtrack |
| 1967 | EiCoH | The Japanese Machine by EngineHonda |
| 1928 | Enfield | The Royal Enfield JAP |
| 197? | ERLA | The German SOHC 2-valve Longtracker |
| 197? | ERLAGodden/Ducati | Featuring a Ducati Desmodromicmotor |
| 1936 | Excelsior | The Excelsior with Long 5 JAP |
| 1946 | Fairchild/Roccio | The Horizontal Fairchild/Roccio |
| 197? | Fairchild | The American Jerry Fairchilddesign |
| 197? | FBM | An Italian 4vv DOHC machine |
| 1956 | F.I.S | The Polish copy of the JAP |
| 1953 | Galbusera | The Italian O.H.V machine |
| 1928 | GlanfieldRudge | One of the earliest purpose designedmachines. |
| 1979 | GM | Giuseppe Marzotto's Italian Motor- The Story |
| 1978-91 | Godden | The Story behind Don Godden'sEngine |
| 1968 | Greeves | Don Smith's Speedway Greeves. |
| 1936 | Grosskreutz | The arrival of the modern dayframe type. |
| 1929 | Harley | The Legendary 'Peashooter' |
| 1934 | Harley | The Lesser Known Two Port 30.50ciand CAC models |
| 1988 | Hasegawa | The Japanese racing machine |
| 1967 | Hedlund | The Swedish DOHC Unit Construction |
| 1984 | Hejisun | The 'All-Australian' machine |
| 19?? | HSG | The The Norwegian built HSG machine. |
| 1998 | Honda | The engine for the future?. |
| 1931 | Husqvarna | The Swedish 'Husky' Dirt Racer |
| 1975 | Hynes | The Dave Hynes Motor |
| 1928 | Indian | Spencer Stratton's Indian |
| 1929 | James | One of Speedways early WorksV-Twins |
| 1979 | JLRCamel | The John Louis 'Humped' Frame |
| 1947 | Kermond | The Exeter built Kermond Machine |
| 197? | KT2 | The Japanese KT2 built by theKyokuto Co |
| 1987 | Kyokuto | The Japanese Mk2 Kyokuto |
| 1966 | Lito | The Motocross To Speedway Engine |
| 1974 | Maely | America's first purpose builtmachine |
| 1938 | MartinComerford | Victor Martin's Comerford |
| 1938 | MartinRudge | Victor Martin's Rudge |
| 1997 | Masek | The New JawesoMasek with Stuhaframe. |
| 197? | Matchless | Jack Emmott's Classic SpeedwayEngine |
| 1928 | Mc.Evoy | So you thought Laydowns werenew? |
| 1979 | Mantovani | A revolutionary rotary ValveJawa conversion |
| 1939 | Moseley | Alec Moseley's 'Super Frame' |
| 1920 | Moto-Guzzi | OHC 4 valve bronze head Guzzifactory racers [early 20's]?. |
| 1967 | MSM | The Australian Meirson Engine |
| 1974 | MTRM | The 1974 MTRM Desmodromic machinemade by Carlo Mazzucato. |
| 1930 | Norton | Norton's Dirt Track Engine |
| 1989 | Pinfold | The Revolutionary Pinfold Frames |
| 1985 | PPT | The Phil Pratt Motor |
| 1928 | P&MPanther | The Phelon and Moore 'Panther' |
| 1992 | RB232 | The Renato Battaglia CylinderHead |
| 1929 | Rex | The Vintage REX dirt Tracker |
| 1951 | Rogers | The Rogers Steering and Throttlemechanisms |
| 1972 | Roth | The German Designed motor. |
| 1928 | Rudge | The First appearance of the Rudge |
| 1930 | Rudge | Major changes are made |
| 19?? | Schneeweiss | The Austrian Speedway/LongTrackmachine |
| 1930 | Scott | The 'Yowling' Two-Stroker |
| 1975 | SHORT-UTEC | An engine developed by John Shortand the UTEC Company |
| 19?? | SIWA | The Siegfried Wartblichter AustrianMotor |
| 1967/68 | SR60 | Australian Fred Jolly's 60bhpMachine |
| 1949 | SRM | Leif Hveem's SRM (Swedish RacingMotor) engine |
| 1929 | Sunbeam | Sunbeams first Dirt Tracker |
| 19?? | Trava | The early Italian 250cc Machine |
| 1946 | Utensil | Built and ridden by Bill Kitchen |
| 1949 | VanGorcum | The Nico Van Gorcum machine |
| 1929 | Velocette | The KTD 411cc from Velocette |
| 1979 | Villa | The Italian OHV and DOHC engines |
| 1947 | Vincent | The Vincent Vampire Prototype |
| 1948 | VincentHRD | The Mosleley follow-up to theVampire |
| 1934 | Whirlwind | Wal Phillips built just two ofthese engines |
| 1979 | TheWilliams | Built by Ken Williams and hisFather |
| 1994 | Yamaha | Trials For The Yamaha YZ250ccEngine |
| TheJAP Workbench | ||
| Year | Machine | Detail |
| 1928/48/53 | OEC | Three of the O.E.C Machines |
| 1928 | OK-Supreme | JAP with magneto in front ofengine |
| 1928 | Lady | The Belgian twin port machine |
| 1930 | Comerford | Housing L.H Horizontal Carb Motor |
| 1931 | DogEar T/P | The Dog-Eared Twin Port Engine |
| 1931 | DogEar S/P | The Dog-Eared Single Port (TwinPlug) |
| 1932 | Short4 | L/H Carb-Short 4-Open Valved |
| 1932 | Comerford | Comerford with the latest Short-4 |
| 1933 | Rudge/JAP | The Short-4 housed in Rudge Frame |
| 1933 | Suecia | The Swedish SMT-50 machine |
| 1933 | LongFour | First with Down Draught on InletPort |
| 1937 | 350JAP | The 350cc 5-Stud engine |
| ** | 500JAP | The 5-Stud Long and Short engines |
| 1938 | Victor Martin Housing the JAP5-Stud | |
| 1948 | VicDuggan | World Champion Vic Duggan Design |
| 1948 | W.Phillips | Wal Phillips Horizontal JAP |
| 1948 | Staride | The Erskine 'Staride' |
| 1948 | Martin | Housing the JAP Long 5-Stud motor |
| 1948 | LesWotton | Housing the Long JAP 5-Stud motor |
| 1949 | Hynes | The Dave Hynes JAP |
| 1949 | Langton | Eric Langton Mk4 Machine |
| 1949 | Payne | Payne JAP housing converted Short4 |
| 1955 | Arnott | Frank Arnott's Desmodromic JAP |
| 1955 | HuckFynn | With the earlier 'Trombone' Forks |
| 1965 | TheBewley | George Bewley's Spring Forksmachine |
| 1967 | Erskine | Restored JAP as ridden by S.Sjosten |
| 1960's | Mattingly | With 'Trombone' forks and 4Amotor. |
| 1960's | 500JAP | Using C.B Ignition not Magneto |
| 19?? | JacksonJAP | An early Jackson JAP |
| 1952 | Jackson-Rotrax-1 | The most famed of JAP's |
| 1972 | Rotrax-2 | Rotrax with 4 valve engine. |
| 1962 | Emstar | John Patterson's Emstar machines |
| 1970's | ERLA | SOHC 2-Valve Conversion |
| 1970's | RO | Norwegian JAP with Weslake Head |
| 1975 | 84S | The 500cc 4-Stud motor |
| 1970's | StreetJAP | Neil Street's 4-Valve Conversion. |
| 1970's | 4Valve | The rare 4-valve DOHC engine. |
| TheJAWA Workbench | ||
| Year | Machine | Detail |
| 1934 | PreWarJAWA | A look at Pre-War Jawa machines |
| 1947 | JOLI/ESO | A look at the change from JOLIto ESO |
| 1955/61 | ESO | Various ESO Machines and Engines |
| 1968 | Jawa890 | First of the Post-ESO Jawas |
| 1970's | 'Smiley'Jawa 890 | The Jawa with modified Fuel Injection |
| 1973 | JawaL/S | The Jawa Long Stroke |
| 1970's | Drake | The American Drake 4v Conversion |
| 1970's | Street | The Mk1 and Mk2 Street Conversions |
| 1970's | Luckhurst | The Luckhurst 4 Valve Conversion |
| 1970's | Watercooled | The Jawa Watercooled D.T Engine |
| 1975 | Ricksson | Swedish OHV 4 Valve conversion |
| 1976 | ERM/JJM | The Swedish ERM and JJM Engine |
| 1977 | BriggoJawa | The Barry Briggs Conversion |
| 197? | RTSJawa | The Roger Taylor RTS Conversion |
| 197? | LSJawa | The LS DOHC to SOHC Conversion |
| 1976 | Jawa894/895 | The DOHC 894 and 895 models |
| 1984 | The SOHC 4 Valver | |
| 1990 | Jawa898/893 | The Jawa 898/893 Tech Sheets |
| 1984 | JWS | The JWS Mk1 & 2 Conversions |
| 1997 | Brian | The Jawa and Brian Frame |
| 1997 | JAWA898.5 | The Latest of the Jawa's |
| 1998 | Longtracker | The Latest Jawa W/Cooled Longtracker |
| 1999 | 880 | An 880 c35occ converted to 263ccand then to Laydown |
| 2001 | NEW | Pictures of the Latest Jawa |
| TheWeslake Workbench | ||
| Year | Machine | Detail |
| 1974 | Prototype | The first ever Complete Weslake. |
| 197? | Weslake250 | The Antig Mounted 250cc Weslake. |
| 197? | OHV5v | Otto Lantenhammer first ever5-valver. |
| 197? | SOHC5v | The BVR SOHC 5 Valve Weslakeengine. |
| 1977 | WeslakeOHV | Roy Young's OHV 2-valver. |
| 1979 | Weslake SOHC | The Manual for the SOHC Engine |
| 1975 | SOHCSpecial | The special with electronic ignition. |
| 1979 | Weslake DOHC | The Weslake DOHC Four valve |
| 1975 | WeslakeMk 4 | Alan Grahame's Mk4 Weslake |
| 1979 | WeslakeMk 5 | The latest of the Weslakes |
| 1982 | Weslake | The New Prototype with fixedBearing |
| 1983 | Weslake | The Otto Lantenhammer Weslake |
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| OtherMachines On the bench | |||
| Year | Machine | Detail | |
| 1994 | Ellwood | The Ellwood Hybrid - 2 Strokeor 4 Stroke? | |
| 1974 | GMT | The George Mossmer Trauchau Conversion | |
| 1998-99 | MagnumLaydown | A converted Magnum of ThomasIrming and Thomas Hartzberg | |
| 1980-1 | BHS | Australian Bob Humphreys Special | |
| 1982 | ESOOHC Conversion | A rare conversion by Rune Arvidsson. | |
| 19?? | TheGilera | A post war adaption of the Gilera. | |
| 19?? | TheBSA-Jawa | An unusual BSA road bike. | |
| 19?? | TheDave Thompson Mystery JAP | More Photo's of the 'Mystery'machine. | |
| 1970 | TheBast | American Mike Bast's machine. | |
| 1934 | TheKiller | An interesting story on thisone. | |
| 1973 | Triumph | An unusual Triumph Speedway Bike | |
| 1977 | JAPMoto-X | An unusual JAP Scrambles machine | |
| 1960's | Hynes/Bond | The 'Back to Front' JAP ?? | |
| 1970's | GoldBikes | When all that Glitters reallyis Gold | |
| 1970's | HiggsPlatinum Bike | JAP 4 valver with Street Headand Philips Injector | |
| c1930 | BSA 'Sloper' | David Burgess's 1930-ish 500ccSloper | |
| 1925 | RoyalRudge | An Interesting Rudge Story | |
| 1967 | Aaen | Norwegian designed 2-Stroker | |
| 1970's | Hagon | The Hagon Range | |
| 1974 | HeathHagon | Roger Heath's Hagon | |
| 1965 | Aberl | The Aber/Alfenbeck 4v Longtracker | |
| 19?? | Bob Jones | The Bob 'Mr Swindon' Jones machine | |
| 1970's | Maely-AJS | A Maely Framed AJS 500 machine | |
| 1971 | Vincent-Triumph | A Vincent - Triumph Sidecar Outfit | |
| 1970's | Mistral | The Last Remaining Mistral | |
| 1970's | Dula-JAP | Gavin Davis's Dula | |
| 1975 | Porkchop | The sectioned Harley Sporster | |
| 1979 | Cagiva-Hagon | The Twin Cylinder 6-speed Longtracker | |
| 1981 | Heathen | The JAWA conversion that neverwas..... | |
| Junior Machines On The bench | |||
| Machine | Detail | ||
| HRD | The Italian 'Happy Red Devil'. | ||
| TM | The Italian 80cc Speedway Machine. | ||
| 4 Robin | The latest Swedish 50cc 4-Stroker. | ||
| Brian | The Swedish 'Brian' Machines. | ||
| Rehorst | Leen Rehorsts special Junior Bike | ||
| Slager&Postema | The S&P from the Netherlands | ||
| Jawa 686 | The Prototype with Rotax Motor | ||
| Jawa Junior | The Prototypewith Rotax Motor | ||
| SRK50 | StanislavKubicek's Junior racer. | ||
| BabySpeedway | The 'Baby'40 and 50cc Machine. | ||
| TheHeimann | The Swedish JuniorRacer. | ||
| AJP 'Special' | The Alan John Machine. | ||
| The SIM50 | British built and John Louis Endorsed. | ||
| The LMS | Russian Built Junior machine. | ||
| The Hagon | The Hagon 90cc and 125cc. | ||
| The Don Smith | Don Smith's 50cc NSU. | ||
| Ice Machines On The Bench | |||
| Machine | Detail | ||
| AAR | This bike is made by Aki Ala Riihimaki from Finland . | ||
| ERLA-JAWA | Incorporating a Ducati Desmodromic Head. | ||
| FOALE | The British built Ice Racer from 1983. | ||
| GPB | The Dutch Mid Eighties Horizontal racer. | ||
| GRS | Gerrit Rook's JAWA bottomhalf with a Desmodromic DUCATIhead. | ||
| HI-MO | The German machine as used by Martin Schmid. | ||
| HMT | The German machine by Harald Mossmer from Trauchau. | ||
| Ivanov | The machine from the Russian former World Champion. | ||
| Jakovlev | The Russian brothers Tibo Lookalike. | ||
| Jawa 881.0 | Jawa Prototype 2 Stroke Iceracer. | ||
| Jawa 890 | Iceracer dated around 1967 with 890 motor | ||
| Jawa 891 | The Jawa Ice Racer raced by Joe Hughes (1974-75) | ||
| Jawa 893.6 | Jawa with 898 motor in line with frame. | ||
| Jawa | Jawa Iceracer of the 1997-98 type. | ||
| Jawa | Jawa Iceracer of the 1999 type. | ||
| Jawa | Latest Jawa Iceracer of 2000. | ||
| Peltonen | The Swedish Ice Machine. | ||
| Svensson | The Swedish machine with monocoque frame. | ||
| Tibo | The Dutch built Jawa powered machine. | ||
| Unknown | An unknown qauntity with a Matchless engine. | ||
| VT | The Finnish built VT (Veijo Tuoriniemi) machines. | ||
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