 Milne reached the final of the Speedway World Championship three times, never finishing lower than sixth place and was in first place after the semi-finals in 1939 when World War II broke out and the final was never run.He returned to Pasadena with his brother and opened a bicycle shop with $4,000 from their racing earnings.The business grew to include a motorcycle dealership and later the Milnes expanded to a major car dealership in the Los Angeles area.