‘The Pines’ Salty Creek, Edgeworth NSW
9th December, 1957 was a grim day for motor sport in NSW. An amendment to the Metropolitan Traffic Act, 1900, and the Motor Traffic Act, 1909, officially termed Act No, 69, 1957, passed through the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of NSW. It became officially referred to thereafter as the “Speedway Racing (Public Safety) Act, 1957”, and after much debate and discussion, was finally implemented on April 2nd, 1959.
Amongst the definitions in Clause 2, “‘Meeting for Speedway Racing’ means meetings at which racing between motor vehicles is held or carried on and includes meetings at which events, not actually races, in which vehicles compete singly or otherwise, but which speed is the determining factor, are held or conducted”. It added, “‘Speedway’ means any…