William Kitchen (7 December 1908 in Galgate, Lancashire, England – May 1994) was an international speedway rider who started his career with the Belle Vue Aces in 1933.

[2] Before he started speedway Kitchen was a prominent road trials rider and had taken part in the Isle of Man TT.

[4] After the war he rode in various meeting during late 1945[5] before becoming the captain of the Wembley Lions in 1946 and finished second in the British Speedway Championship.

[6] Kitchen was a member of a National League winning team eleven times in twenty years, a feat made even more exceptional given the fact that the outbreak of World War II cost his Belle Vue team the chance of earning Kitchen a twelfth title (the Aces were top of the league when it was abandoned), and the fact that the competition was suspended a further six seasons during the war.

After retirement, Bill ran a motor spares shop bearing his own name, in Station Road Harrow until at least the 1980s.