Chris Julian (speedway rider)

In 1962, he rode for Plymouth, which closed at the end of that year and in 1963 at St Austell, where he had his best season to date and quickly became the Gulls' number one.

At the end of 1963 St Austell closed and this left Julian once again without a team to ride for, however a call from his mentor Redmond led him to him join Glasgow for the 1964 season.

Notable achievements included his first full maximum on 7 May against Belle Vue and briefly holding the Silver Sash after beating Tommy Sweetman in July.

After Julian's death in May 1997 in the crash of a different model gyroglider at the Kemble airfield the design passed to former helicopter pilot Mark Harrisson in July 2000.

Harrisson had intended to put the aircraft back into production, but in 2013 instead donated Julian's prototype to The Helicopter Museum in Weston-super-Mare, where it arrived on 9 July 2013.