Harry Riley "Ginger" Lees (1905 - 1982?). English international
motorcycle speedway rider who rode in the first ever Speedway World
Championship final in 1936.
Lees also appeared in the 1933 British
film Money for Speed which starred John Loder, Ida Lupino, Cyril
McLaglen and Moore Marriott. Lionel van Praag, Frank Varey and speedway
promoter Johnnie Hoskins also featured.
- "... Harry Riley Lees,
known as “Ginger” because of his thick shock of red hair, was one of the
leading motor cyclists from the North of England before the advent of
speedway." http://www.defunctspeedway.co.uk/Norman%20Jacobs.htm
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