TOUR DE FRANCE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1930, Page 2

TOUR DE FRANCE

The Hudson Motor Car Company has been notified bv cablegram that a Hudson Great Eight Roadster and a New Essex Challenger Roadster were awarded highest honours at the completion of the nine day Tour de France, most celebernteir anil gruelling of the annual automobile tests staged on the Continent. The Hudson Roadster won the gold medal and the coveted Ansaldo Trophy, giving the Hudson Motor Car Coy, possession for the second year in succession. In addition to these first prizes, the Hudson and Essex also won the Dunlop and Spido Cups of ifered the two leading cars manufactured by the same company.

In each case, the Hudson and Essex survived the tests without a single penalisation, the second successive year they have done this on the tour.

The Tour de France consists of a nine day run of approximately 310 miles per day ,with intermediate ernys in the various French provinces devoted to speed contests, hill climbs, starts in cold motors, brake rests, acceleration tests and other event's designed to bring out the full qualities of the cars. The Gold Medal is awarded the car finishing all of these tests with the fewest penalisations The Ansaldo Trophy, declared to be ona of the most beautiful trophies offered the automobile industry is awarded to tile winning car in the starting from cold motor, braking and hill climbing tests. This year 87 ears from every country, started the long grind, the largest number otf entries in the long history of the race. Thousand of spectators were assembled to every control point to cheer the contestants, according to the cable. The conditions were more severe than in any previous year, though most of the run was .staged through heavy rain and fog. Andre Morel drove the Hudson to victory, with Colas, a Hudson-Essex dealer from Lyons, piloting the Essex Challenger.