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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10523, 11 January 1912, Page 5

THE VICTORIOUS TRIUMPH. WOMDERiFUL RECORD OF SUCCESSES ON TRIUMPH MOTOR CYCLES. At tihe H.B. Motor Cycle Club's sports iheld on tho Hastings Racecourse on Boxing Day, tilie Triumphs again practically swept tihe board. Out of an entry of 12 machines representing 5 difterent .makes the. Triumphs secured ten firsts, seven seconds, and 4 .tliiads oust of a possible eleven, emits-. Tliis performance is' all the_ more remarkable when it is> considered! ■tlliat tlie Triumphs ihad to- concede I'arge .handicaps to machines of equal power and <six of the ten. first nuvcihanes wene iridd'en by iama.t-cw riders.

On Saturday, December SOtih, Mr J. L. Braitlnvaite left; for Wellington on liis Triumph motor cycle to make am attempt omi tlie existing figures of tire Wellington, to Napier record'— viz.. Slurs 35imn., established iby Mr H. L: Schaeffer on New Year's Day, 1909, also o.n si Triumph. In, spite ol ; several attempts 011 other makes of machines, this record lias stood to the credit of the Triumph for tlvree years. Mr OBrafthwiaAte left .the Wellington Post Office at 4.20 a.m. on New Year's Day, a,ml arrived at the Napier Post Office at 10.57 a.m., liis time being 6hrs. 38min., lWerimg the previous (record Hby nearly two hours. The Triumph ran perfectly from start to finish, -the only two .stops being to take wi petrol and oil. It iis only perfect machines made firom the finest* material procurable that can average 33J- 'miles an. hour over 2450 mile® of "New Zeallland roads.

. Those who were at the Napier Post Office at tire finisli oouftl not irelp hut remark on tihe perfect condition of the machine at tlie finish. The Triumph is ai.ot only made for speed;. It lias proved itself to be the machine for_ (hard work and long wear, and i.s perfectly adapted to New Zealand roads. Wo can deliver both fixed avv .free en pine models from stock, and T.-onld he pleased to give trial runs to intcndiaig purchasers at all!' timts. TOURSST MOTOR CO., LTD . FVile Agents for nnd B.S.A. >r otor CVcW.' V'ai'-nmpa, Hawkes Bay, and Poverty I3av. ROBERT TOOK, Local .Agent.