Arthur Payne (speedway rider)


Arthur Payne was an Australian international speedway rider who finished fifth in the 1952 Speedway World Championship final.

Career

Payne arrived in the UK in 1947 and signed up with the Tamworth Hounds in the National League Division Three. After scoring almost three hundred points for the Hounds, he was transferred to the Birmingham Brummies for £500, a record fee for a third division rider at that time.
Payne struck up an excellent partnership with Brummies captain Stan Dell and the Brummies were promoted from National League Division Two at the end of the 1948 season. In 1949, with the Brummies in National League Division One, Payne had ridden in all three divisions within the first three years of his career.
It was with the Brummies his career flourished, reaching the World Final three times in four years, finishing fifth in his second appearance.

World final appearances