ESO – the search for the truth

I have read the updates on the ESO feature in OBA 55 and I find that the information is not correct. Chum Taylor won the 1966 Australian title on an ESO in an Arthur Hurst frame with a fuel injector. The motor was supplied by Fred Jolly in 1962. Chum should be credited as the man who ironed out the original problems. He found it had the wrong cams and he fitted an AMAL carb. I visited Chum in 2009 when he told me the story. Old Bike magazine number 5 page 42 confirms these facts in an article by Ken Duperouzel. Now we come to the Ove Fundin ESO. This was the first one in Australia imported by Fred Jolly in 1960 and ridden by Ken McKinlay and Ove Fundin in Adelaide. It was purchased by Bob Sharp in Rockhampton in July 1961. Bob then rode it at Sydney and Kembla Grange and took it to NZ in January 1962. After his injury he sold it to Jim Airey who then sold it to Greg Kentwell. Bob brought it back and it was ridden by Ray Sharp and then purchased by Bruce Gardiner. The original motor is in a frame owned by Bruce Gardiner’s son up in Queensland. Some where along the line the frame was changed and is now owned by a Sydney identity. The third point is the bike ridden by Jack Young and later Ken McKinlay was a later importation, this was also purchased by Bob Sharp. I researched all this recently on behalf of the Gardiner family. Tony Webb Speedway Workshop, Queensland