Race car driver Frank Suess in car number 40 at Legion Ascot Speedway in City Terrace, East Los Angeles. Title devised by cataloger. Location determined by research and grouping with related photographs - (see photCL_555_01_307). Frank Suess died in 1933 in a crash at Ascot Speedway. (Motor Sport Magazine, August 1933.) Legion Ascot Speedway operated 1924-1936 in City Terrace, East Los Angeles. (Source: “History of America's Speedways, Past and Present" by Allan E. Brown).
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