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Start List
There are now at least two sets of scanned images of the 1946 programme pages available online. The best being at the Veteran Cycle Club Library. However these are images that need to be converted to text in order to be searchable.
But why bother? Well making them searchable means that anyone can find their contents using Google, Yahoo, etc. But equally importantly errors can be corrected. And the first rider entry in the 1946 programme - for Ernie Clements - illustrates such errors as Wikipedia is wrong on at least two points.
First Wikipedia gives his name as Ernest J when it should be Ernest A. You can double check at FreeBMD - the online register of births, marriages and deaths - by looking that the 1922 Births.
Second Wikipedia says that Ernie’s stage 1 Brighton-Glasgow win was in 1951 when it was in fact 1945. And again you can double check by looking at the limited 1951 results already online - where Frenchman Georges Blum won Stage 1 but Ernie did not compete.
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1. E A (Ernie) CLEMENTS - Wrekin Racing CC Colours: Green, White bands. Age 24. Started cycle racing 1938. Ambition to represent Britain in the famous “Tour de France”. Weight, 11 1/2 stone. Height, 6-ft. 1943 First British Road Race Champion. 1945 Winner, National Road Race and Time Trial. 1946, First Shrewsbury Hospitals Road Race. 1943/44, First “Tour of the Peaks”. 1943/44, First “Circuit of the Clees”. 1945, First Vatutin Tribute Memorial. 1945 Winner first stage Brighton to London in 5-Day Brighton to Glasgow Road Race, outsprinting Batot, the French crack.
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2. ALFRED RUDOLPH STROM - Australian Cycling Association. Colours: Red with Australian emblems. Age 29. Started cycle racing 1934. Weight, 11 st. Height, 5-ft 10 3/4 in. Winner, 128-mile Road Race three years in succession 1938/1939/1940. Winner, 100-mile Australian Championship, 1940/1941/1942. Five-mile paced World’s record 8m. 39s. Two-mile paced World’s record 3m. 23s. Winner, 10-mile Championship, Australia, 1946. Fastest time, Bournemouth “Australian Pursuit”, England, 1946. Winner, “Tour of the Wannies”, Newcastle, 1946.
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3. GEORGE EDWARDS - Chryston Wheelers. Colours; Royal Blue. Age 23. Started cycle racing 1940. Weight, 13-st. 3-lb. Height, 6ft. Scottish Road Race and Time Trial Champion, 1945. Winner, Trossacks Road Race, 1945. Winner, “Star” Road Race 1945. Winner, “Clees” Road Race, 1945. Winner, Glasgow-Edinburgh and back Road Race, 1945. Seventh Five-day Race 1945. Winner, Scottish Novice Track Championship, 1940. Fastest “25” miles 1h 2m 25s. Fastest “50” miles 2h 8m 47s, 1945. Considers his best performance finishing Five-day Road Race, 1945. Seventh in 25h 41m 23s (First Scotsman to reach Glasgow). Scottish Road Race Champion, 1946.
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4. REGINALD ATHELSTANE (ROGER) ARNOLD - Australian Cycling Association. Colours: Red with Australian emblems. Age 21. Started cycle racing 1941. Weight, 10st 9lb. Height, 5ft 9in. All round track champion 1944/45. Sprint championship, Australia 1946. 500 metre World record (human paced) 32-1/5 s. 1/4 mile World record (human paced) 23-1/5s. 220 yards World Record (motor paced, flying start) 10-4/5s. 5 mile N.S.W. Champion, 1944. First, 90 mile road race, 1945. Fastest time, 75 mile Race, 1945 (Moss Vale to Sydney).
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5. ALEX HENDRY - Glasgow Wheelers C.C. Colours, White with 4in blue band. Age 25. Started cycle racing 1938. Weight, 10st 10lb. Height, 5ft 7in. First, Campsie Road Race. First, Deaut Road Race. First, Detchmont Road Race. First, Chryston Grand Prix Road Race. First, Glasgow to Dundee Victory Road Race. First, Carluke Road Race. Considers best performance Second, “Circuit of the Clees” by half-wheel to G Edwards. First, Scottish Section T.T. Champion, 1946. 1945, Hill Climb Champion.
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6. EDWARD (TED) JONES
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7. GEOFFREY CLARK
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8. DENNIS L JAGGARD
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9. CHARLIE B HELPS
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10. RALPH JONES
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11. HAROLD D BINFIELD
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12. HORACE G POOLE
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13. DICK BOYDEN
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14. GEOFFREY HILL
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15. LESLIE PLUME
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16. ARTHUR BAILEY
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17. WALTER W GREAVES
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18. JAMES BROWN
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19. ARTHUR CAMPBELL
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20. STEWART MONTGOMERY
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41. HENRY F BUTCHER
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42. JOHN STEPHENSON
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43. MORRIS A GOUGH
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44. NORMAN TAYLOR
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45. J G C (JACK) TAYLOR
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46. HORACE DALE
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47. RICHARD WELLS
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48. SIDNEY THOMAS ALDRIDGE
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49. RONALD HYMAN
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50. HORACE E THURGAR
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51. A H (STOPPA) CLARKE
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52. R FILSELL
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53. PAUL K STEVENSON
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54. JAMES FERGUSON
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55. A F MURRAY
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56. WILLIAM C ORDRIDGE
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57. SYD A THOMPSON
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58. JOHN W COLLINS
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59. ERIC G BROWN
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60. FRED L TAYLOR
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