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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10520, 8 January 1912, Page 5

THE VICTORIOUS TRIUMPH. VoNIDERIFUL RECORD OF SUCCESSES ON TRIUMPH MOTOR 'CYCLES. ' At the H.8.-Motor Cycle Club's sports held on the Hastings ' Racecourse on- Boxing Day, tthe Triumphs again practically swept the board. Out of an entry* of 12' machines representing 5 different makes the Tri- ; ump'lis secured ten. firsts, seven seconds, and 4 Itttriirdsi out of a possible eleven events. This performance is all the_ mare remarkable when it is consiflered ■flhat the Triumphs 'had to concede llarge handicaps to machines of equait power and «ix of the ten. first machines were ridden by amateur radem On Saturday, December 30th, Mr J. L. Braithwaite left for Wellington on his Triumph motor cycle to make an attempt oni tihe existing figures of the Wellington to. Napier record—viz., Shrs 35rmin., estabh'shied by Mr H. L. Schaeffer on New Year's Day, 1909, also on a Triumph. In. spite of several attempts on other makes oi machines, this Tecord has- stood to the credit of the Triumph for three yeans. Mr ißrathwaite left the Welliuoton Post Office at 4.20 a.m. on New Year'© Day, and arrived at the Napier Post Office at 10.57 a.m., fca« time being Glurs. 38min., Towerimg the previous record (by nearly two hours. The Triumph ran perfectly from start to finish, the only two stops being to take m~ petrol and oil. It Ls' opJv perfect machines made from the finest material procurable that can. average 33i miles an- hour over 230 miles "of New Zeaitond roods. # Those who were at the Napier Post Office at the finish could not h'elp hut iremark on the perfect condition of the machine at the nn'w?n. The Triumph Is. not only made far speed*. It has proved itself to be the machine for (hard work and long wear, and is perfectly adapted: to New Zealand roads. We can deliver both fixed mi free engine models from stock, and would be (pleased to give trial runs to intending purchasers 1 at all!, times. TOURIST MOTOR CO., LTD., Sole Agents for Triumnh and B.S.A. Motor Odes, Wai.rarapa, Hawkes Bav, and Poverty Bay. ROBERT POOK, Local Agent.

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