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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10521, 9 January 1912, Page 5

THE VICTORIOUS TRIUMPH. WONDERFUL .RECORD OF SUCCESSES ON TRIUMPH MOTOR CYCLES. At the H.B. Motor Cycle CLub'ssports held: oil the Hastings Racecourse on Boxing Day, the Triumphs ■again practically iswept the board. Out of an of 12 machines representing 5 different makes 'the .Triumphs secured .ten. firsts, seven seconds, and 4 thirds out of a possible eleven events. This performance is- all the more remarkable when it is eonsaUerecE •ffliat the Triumphs 'lkkl_ to concede targe handicaps to machines of equal power and six of the ten first machines were ridden by amateur riders 1 . On Saturday, December 30th, Mr J. L. Rraithwaite left for Wellington on ]iis Triumph motor cycle i-o make .ail attempt ons the existing figures of the Wellington to. Napier viz .Shr» i?sm<in., established by Mr H. L. Sdnieffer on New Year's Day, 1909, also on a Triumph. In, spite of several attempts on Other makes of; machines, this record has stood to. the credit of the Triumph for threeyears. Mir Erathwaite left the Welii;n,"ton Post Office at 4.20 a.m. on New Year's Dav, and arrived at the Napier Post Office at 10.57 a.m., his time being 6hrs. 38min-., lowering the previous record 'by nearly two hours. The Trunin)!) rail perfectly from start, to finish, the only two stops being to take Mi petrol and oil. It iis> only perfect machines made from the finest- material .procurablethat cflji. average 33J mi,Les an hour, over 230 miles of New • Zealand' Voadf-. TOURIST MOTOR CO., LTR-, Sole Agents for Triumph and 8.L..A. "*Vt«r (\ <- %r -z. Wa'i'ariipa, Hawkes Bav, and Poverty iia/. ROBERT POOK, Local Agent-