Nationality Australia Career status Retired | Name Vic Huxley Died June 24, 1982 | |
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Born 23 September 1906
Brisbane, Queensland ( 1906-09-23 ) 1930–1931
1931–1936 Harringay Canaries
Wimbledon Dons 1930
1934
1936 Star Riders' Championship
Australian Champion
London Riders' Championship | ||
Victor Nelson "Vic" Huxley (23 September 1906 – 24 June 1982 in Brisbane. Queensland) was a speedway rider who won the Star Riders' Championship, the forerunner of the Speedway World Championship, in 1930 and finished runner-up in 1931 and 1932. He also won the London Riders' Championship in 1936 whilst with the Wimbledon Dons.
Huxley won the 1934 Australian Championship (3 Laps) in front of his home crowd at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground.
Vic Huxley retired from British speedway at the end of the 1936 season and returned to Australia where he rode in the Winter test series against England. He lived in Ashgrove in Brisbane, and set up a motorcycle business in Adelaide Street called the "British Motorcycle Corporation" which he ran until the mid 1960s.
Huxley died in his home town of Brisbane on 24 June 1982 at the age of 75, just 3 months shy of his 76th birthday.