Cyril Arthur Dungey,(1909-1984)
Born; Norwood, South Australia on 30th July 1909, third child of seven.
Married May (Pat) Chadwick (1907-1974) on 15th June 1936 at age 26 in Melbourne, Victoria.
Moved to Corowa in early 1941, bought a 50 sq home on 10 acres in South Corowa for 680 pounds (pre dollar days)
Here Cyril & May had 3 children, 2 girls, Mary Lucille, Judith Anne & a son, Arthur Chadwick (Chad, deceased 1945-1989)
The property, known as Augusta Hall, was a wonderful home for the family until the early 60's, when the grown children left home & Cyril & May moved into the township of Corowa. Pop then 3,000.
Lived; Adelaide, Melbourne & Corowa in NSWales
Trained; in all 3 States
Rode Amateur Bicycle races & trained with Hubert Opperman, Bruce Small, Fatty Lamb & various other bicycle record holders of the early 1900's mostly in & around Melbourne, Victoria.
Cyril won many local, State & 4 World records in his long & passionate cycling career, spanning over half a century.
Pictures of his sashes, trophies & original world records certificates will gradually be posted on this site over the coming year...so sign up now to be notified of updates.
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Spending my high school years in Corowa, I remember Mr and Mrs Dungey fondly.
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Six mornngs every week I worked as a paper boy delivering heavy loads of newspapers on my Speedwell bicycle. I rode it like boys of that age ride their bikes, hard and everywhere. I often sort Mr Dungey’s advice on repairing and maintaining my poor hard ridden bike. His advice was always given to me freely and in my early teenage years he gave me the confidence to completely disassemble, clean, service and successfully reassemble my sturmey archer 3 speed geared hub.
I remember Mrs Dungey sitting behind the counter knitting and serving people while Mr Dungey worked on bicycles. She once looked at my finger nails and complemented me on them.
While we must protect our children, let’s do it without losing the wonderful examples, inputs and relationships that people like Mr and Mrs Dungey can give to communities.
Thankyou for you blog, I’m keen to see just what he achieved in his racing.
I think Cyril would have been proud of his bike riding daughters Mary and Judy who, together with friend Faye (I think), pedaled over fifty miles from Corowa and back to see me and my mate Ian when we worked at the radio station 3NE Wangaratta. That was darned near 60 years ago. What a gutsy thing for three young ladies to do. Also, good on Mr and Mrs Dungey for letting them do it (what a different era that was!). The marathon ride became legendary at the radio station because the photos Mary took that day were trotted out for various 3NE anniversaries including the 50th, the fifty five years of radio for my friend Ian, also at his retirement this year (2014). The Dungey’s were a great country family if ever there was.
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I have a small Dungey Corowa tricycle, similar to the Cyclops of the era.
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