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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10530, 17 January 1912, Page 5

j THE VICTORIOUS TRIUMPH. i WONIDERiFUL RECORD OF SUCCESSES ON TRIUMPH MOTOR CYCLES. - ~ At tflie H,B. Motor Cycle Club s sports SheQd on the Hastings Racecourse 011 Boxing Day, the Triumphs j again practically swept the board.: Out of an entry of 12 machines repI resenting 5 different makes the Tn--1 umpli's secured ten. firsts, seven seconds, and 4 -thirds out of a possible eleven eventsThis performance is_ all the more remarkable when it consaflered tlvat the Triuimplhs had to concede 3'a.rge handicaps to machines of-equal : power and 'six of the ten. first ma<MiI anes wore a'idden by amatei£riders. * On Saturday, December 30t3i, Mir j J. L. Braithwaite left for Wellington j on bis Triumph motor cycle to make I an attempt oni the existing figures or the Wellington to. Napier record—viz. Bhrs Soman., established 'byMr H, L. Seliaeffer on New Year's Day, 1909, also on a Triumph. In spite or several atltempts on other makes or miachimes, this record has' stood to the credit o.f the Triumph for tha-ee vears. Mr Brathwaite left .the Wellington Post Office at 4.20 a.m. on New Year's' Day, and, arrived at the Napier Post- Office at 10.57 a.m., sms time being 6brs. 38mm., l'owertng the previous record by nearly two hours. The Triumph ran perfectly from start to finish, -the only two _sto,ps being to take ill petrol and oil. it iis only pea-feet machines made worn the finest material procurable that ran average 33} miles an hour over 230 miles of New Zealand roads. _ Those who were at the Napier Post Office at the finish could not h'elp but remark on the perfect condition of the machine at the niias-Ji. The Triumph is not only made tor . speed.. It has proved itself to be t-ne I machine for hard work . jS I ivar, and ia perfectly adapted to I Now' Zealand i\/.uls. We mn deliver both fixed. !>, • free engine models 'from stock. and would be pleased to I give, trial runs to intending purchaser® at a 111 times. TOURIST MOTOR CO., LTD., 'Role Agents for Triumph and B.S.A. Motor Ovcles, Wairarnpa, HawkesBav, and Poverty ROBERT POOK, Local. Agent.