[4] The introduction was a success and the following season a company called Albion Auto racers of Stockport, Cheshire, took over and the team (not known as the Bears yet) were founder members of the 1929 Speedway English Dirt Track League, holding their first home fixture was on 16 May 1929 against Salford.

[15] At the end of the 1964 season the Bears team moved to Halifax and the track staged challenge matches in 1965 and under former captain Eric Boothroyd's promotion in 1966 before folding.

[18] The team struggled for the remainder of the decade and in 1979 were renamed Middlesbrough Tigers, also a season which after 12 years turned out to be Ron Wilson's final one as he had opened up a new track at Milton Keynes in 1978.

The team were also losing Knockout Cup finalists to the homeless Berwick Bandits in a controversial last heat decider at Newcastle's Brough Park, with the match result dependent on the aggregate score.

[22] The team saw riders the calibre of Gary Havelock, Martin Dixon, Mark Fiora and Geoff Pusey in support of Wilcock and Courtney.

Initially crowds were healthy but as the 1980s progressed the club's fortunes on track dwindled, the stand was never replaced by the greyhound owners and there were yearly rumours that the land on which it stood was to be sold for redevelopment.

[23] The 1990s started well with the Bears finishing runner-up to Poole Pirates in both the league and Knockout Cup but subsequent seasons failed to bring any silverware.

They competed in the Humber League and East Riding Cup and also raced at various 'away' tracks including Belle Vue (Manchester), Buxton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, King's Lynn, Newcastle, Oxford, Scunthorpe, Sheffield & Workington.