These pages are adapted from archives of the site by Chris Byles known as The Workshop - Speedway and GrassTrack Machines previously at speedwaybikes.fortunecity.net and at exeter-falcons.demon.co.uk
Chris Byles: chris at exeter-falcons.demon.co.uk and cbyles at exeter-falcons.demon.co.uk
The sites have been offline for some time, but versions are available at the Wayback Machine. If the original owner 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 | BSA S29 | The Poor Man's Speedway machine | |
| 197? | B.S.A | The British Mk1 and Mk2 BSA | |
| 1929 | Calthorpe | The 350cc Calthorpe "Speedway Special" | |
| 19?? | Champion | A "Champion" Framed JAP (we think) | |
| 1973 | Cole MK3 | 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 from N.Zealand | |
| 1966 | The Dirtrax | Bert Kingston's Australian Dirtrax | |
| 19?? | D.K.W | Information needed on the German DKW | |
| 1928 | Douglas | The - RA, DT, Langton and Red Devil | |
| 197? | DR500 | The German engine designed for Longtrack | |
| 1967 | EiCoH | The Japanese Machine by Engine Honda | |
| 1928 | Enfield | The Royal Enfield JAP | |
| 197? | ERLA | The German SOHC 2-valve Longtracker | |
| 197? | ERLA Godden/Ducati | Featuring a Ducati Desmodromic motor | |
| 1936 | Excelsior | The Excelsior with Long 5 JAP | |
| 1946 | Fairchild/Roccio | The Horizontal Fairchild/Roccio | |
| 197? | Fairchild | The American Jerry Fairchild design | |
| 197? | FBM | An Italian 4v DOHC machine | |
| 1956 | F.I.S | The Polish copy of the JAP | |
| 1953 | Galbusera | The Italian O.H.V machine | |
| 1928 | Glanfield Rudge | One of the earliest purpose designed machines. | |
| 1979 | GM | Giuseppe Marzotto's Italian Motor - The Story | |
| 1978-91 | Godden | The Story behind Don Godden's Engine | |
| 1968 | Greeves | Don Smith's Speedway Greeves. | |
| 1936 | Grosskreutz | The arrival of the modern day frame type. | |
| 1929 | Harley | The Legendary "Peashooter" | |
| 1934 | Harley | The Lesser Known Two Port 30.50ci and 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 Works V-Twins | |
| 1979 | JLR Camel | The John Louis "Humped" Frame | |
| 1947 | Kermond | The Exeter built Kermond Machine | |
| 197? | KT2 | The Japanese KT2 built by the Kyokuto Co | |
| 1987 | Kyokuto | The Japanese Mk2 Kyokuto | |
| 1966 | Lito | The Motocross To Speedway Engine | |
| 1974 | Maely | America's first purpose built machine | |
| 1938 | Martin Comerford | Victor Martin's Comerford | |
| 1938 | Martin Rudge | Victor Martin's Rudge | |
| 1997 | Masek | The New JawesoMasek with Stuha frame. | |
| 197? | Matchless | Jack Emmott's Classic Speedway Engine | |
| 1928 | Mc.Evoy | So you thought Laydowns were new? | |
| 1979 | Mantovani | A revolutionary rotary Valve Jawa conversion | |
| 1939 | Moseley | Alec Moseley's "Super Frame" | |
| 1920 | Moto-Guzzi | OHC 4 valve bronze head Guzzi factory racers [early 20's]?. | |
| 1967 | MSM | The Australian Meirson Engine | |
| 1974 | MTRM | The 1974 MTRM Desmodromic machine made by Carlo Mazzucato. | |
| 1930 | Norton | Norton's Dirt Track Engine | |
| 1989 | Pinfold | The Revolutionary Pinfold Frames | |
| 1985 | PPT | The Phil Pratt Motor | |
| 1928 | P&M Panther | The Phelon and Moore "Panther" | |
| 1992 | RB232 | The Renato Battaglia Cylinder Head | |
| 1929 | Rex | The Vintage REX dirt Tracker | |
| 1951 | Rogers | The Rogers Steering and Throttle mechanisms | |
| 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/LongTrack machine | |
| 1930 | Scott | The "Yowling" Two-Stroker | |
| 1975 | SHORT-UTEC | An engine developed by John Short and the UTEC Company | |
| 19?? | SIWA | The Siegfried Wartblichter Austrian Motor | |
| 1967/68 | SR60 | Australian Fred Jolly's 60bhp Machine | |
| 1949 | SRM | Leif Hveem's SRM (Swedish Racing Motor) engine | |
| 1929 | Sunbeam | Sunbeams first Dirt Tracker | |
| 19?? | Trava | The early Italian 250cc Machine | |
| 1946 | Utensil | Built and ridden by Bill Kitchen | |
| 1949 | Van Gorcum | 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 | Vincent HRD | The Mosleley follow-up to the Vampire | |
| 1934 | Whirlwind | Wal Phillips built just two of these engines | |
| 1979 | The Williams | Built by Ken Williams and his Father | |
| 1994 | Yamaha | Trials For The Yamaha YZ250cc Engine | |
| The JAP Workbench | |||
| Year | Machine | Detail | |
| 1928/48/53 | OEC | Three of the O.E.C Machines | |
| 1928 | OK-Supreme | JAP with magneto in front of engine | |
| 1928 | Lady | The Belgian twin port machine | |
| 1930 | Comerford | Housing L.H Horizontal Carb Motor | |
| 1931 | Dog Ear T/P | The Dog-Eared Twin Port Engine | |
| 1931 | Dog Ear S/P | The Dog-Eared Single Port (Twin Plug) | |
| 1932 | Short 4 | 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 | Long Four | First with Down Draught on Inlet Port | |
| 1937 | 350 JAP | The 350cc 5-Stud engine | |
| ** | 500 JAP | The 5-Stud Long and Short engines | |
| 1938 | Victor Martin Housing the JAP 5-Stud | ||
| 1948 | Vic Duggan | 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 | Les Wotton | 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 | Huck Fynn | With the earlier "Trombone" Forks | |
| 1965 | The Bewley | George Bewley's Spring Forks machine | |
| 1967 | Erskine | Restored JAP as ridden by S.Sjosten | |
| 1960's | Mattingly | With "Trombone" forks and 4A motor. | |
| 1960's | 500 JAP | Using C.B Ignition not Magneto | |
| 19?? | Jackson JAP | 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 | Street JAP | Neil Street's 4-Valve Conversion. | |
| 1970's | 4 Valve | The rare 4-valve DOHC engine. | |
| The JAWA Workbench | |||
| Year | Machine | Detail | |
| 1934 | PreWar JAWA | A look at Pre-War Jawa machines | |
| 1947 | JOLI/ESO | A look at the change from JOLI to ESO | |
| 1955/61 | ESO | Various ESO Machines and Engines | |
| 1968 | Jawa 890 | First of the Post-ESO Jawas | |
| 1970's | "Smiley" Jawa 890 | The Jawa with modified Fuel Injection | |
| 1973 | Jawa L/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 | Briggo Jawa | The Barry Briggs Conversion | |
| 197? | RTS Jawa | The Roger Taylor RTS Conversion | |
| 197? | LS Jawa | The LS DOHC to SOHC Conversion | |
| 1976 | Jawa 894/895 | The DOHC 894 and 895 models | |
| 1984 | The SOHC 4 Valver | ||
| 1990 | Jawa 898/893 | The Jawa 898/893 Tech Sheets | |
| 1984 | JWS | The JWS Mk1 & 2 Conversions | |
| 1997 | Brian | The Jawa and Brian Frame | |
| 1997 | JAWA 898.5 | The Latest of the Jawa's | |
| 1998 | Longtracker | The Latest Jawa W/Cooled Longtracker | |
| 1999 | 880 | An 880 c35occ converted to 263cc and then to Laydown | |
| 2001 | NEW | Pictures of the Latest Jawa | |
| The Weslake Workbench | |||
| Year | Machine | Detail | |
| 1974 | Prototype | The first ever Complete Weslake. | |
| 197? | Weslake 250 | The Antig Mounted 250cc Weslake. | |
| 197? | OHV 5v | Otto Lantenhammer first ever 5-valver. | |
| 197? | SOHC 5v | The BVR SOHC 5 Valve Weslake engine. | |
| 1977 | Weslake OHV | Roy Young's OHV 2-valver. | |
| 1979 | Weslake SOHC | The Manual for the SOHC Engine | |
| 1975 | SOHC Special | The special with electronic ignition. | |
| 1979 | Weslake DOHC | The Weslake DOHC Four valve | |
| 1975 | Weslake Mk 4 | Alan Grahame's Mk4 Weslake | |
| 1979 | Weslake Mk 5 | The latest of the Weslakes | |
| 1982 | Weslake | The New Prototype with fixed Bearing | |
| 1983 | Weslake | The Otto Lantenhammer Weslake | |
| Other Machines On the bench | ||||
| Year | Machine | Detail | ||
| 1994 | Ellwood | The Ellwood Hybrid - 2 Stroke or 4 Stroke? | ||
| 1974 | GMT | The George Mossmer Trauchau Conversion | ||
| 1998-99 | Magnum Laydown | A converted Magnum of Thomas Irming and Thomas Hartzberg | ||
| 1980-1 | BHS | Australian Bob Humphreys Special | ||
| 1982 | ESO OHC Conversion | A rare conversion by Rune Arvidsson. | ||
| 19?? | The Gilera | A post war adaption of the Gilera. | ||
| 19?? | The BSA-Jawa | An unusual BSA road bike. | ||
| 19?? | The Dave Thompson Mystery JAP | More Photo's of the "Mystery" machine. | ||
| 1970 | The Bast | American Mike Bast's machine. | ||
| 1934 | The Killer | An interesting story on this one. | ||
| 1973 | Triumph | An unusual Triumph Speedway Bike | ||
| 1977 | JAP Moto-X | An unusual JAP Scrambles machine | ||
| 1960's | Hynes/Bond | The "Back to Front" JAP ?? | ||
| 1970's | Gold Bikes | When all that Glitters really is Gold | ||
| 1970's | Higgs Platinum Bike | JAP 4 valver with Street Head and Philips Injector | ||
| c1930 | BSA "Sloper" | David Burgess's 1930-ish 500cc Sloper | ||
| 1925 | Royal Rudge | An Interesting Rudge Story | ||
| 1967 | Aaen | Norwegian designed 2-Stroker | ||
| 1970's | Hagon | The Hagon Range | ||
| 1974 | Heath Hagon | 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 never was..... | ||
| 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 Prototype with Rotax Motor | |||
| SRK50 | Stanislav Kubicek's Junior racer. | |||
| Baby Speedway | The "Baby" 40 and 50cc Machine. | |||
| The Heimann | The Swedish Junior Racer. | |||
| 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 DUCATI head. | |||
| 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 quantity with a Matchless engine. | |||
| VT | The Finnish built VT (Veijo Tuoriniemi) machines. | |||
