 The team won the Southern League  but in the last league meeting of the season Atkinson was left unconscious after a crash.He missed the most of the 1931 season after a dispute with Wembley but in September 1931 he joined the West Ham Hammers.Atkinson toured Australia in 1929/30, winning both the first of two Australian 2 mile Championship's held at the Exhibition Speedway in Melbourne, and the Western Australian Championship at the Claremont Speedway in Perth.