Leicester storey of Walker's Oxford Street factory in Leicester. In the early days the potatoes were sliced by hand and cooked in an ordinary fish and chip fryer. In 1971 the Walker's crisps business was sold to Standard Brands, an American firm, who sold on the company to Frito-Lay. Walker's crisps makes 10 million bags of crisps per day at two factories in Beaumont Leys, and is the UK's largest grocery brand. The Beaumont Leys manufacturing plant is world's largest crisp factory. Meanwhile, the sausage and pie business was bought out by Samworth Brothers in 1986. Production outgrew the Cobden Street
Leicester Super in unsanctioned meetings, including appearances from Paddy Mills (riding under his real name, Horace Burke, to avoid being fined by the ACU) and Wilf Plant. Speedway was never revived again at the Super track, and the stadium was demolished. Leicester Super Leicester Super was a motorcycle speedway team based at the Leicester Super Speedway near Melton Road. Promotion company Speedways and Sports Ltd initially approached Leicestershire County Cricket Club in 1929 with a proposal to construct Leicester's second speedway track (after Leicester Stadium) around the edge of the pitch on Aylestone Road, but when this was rejected an alternative site