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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10557, 12 February 1912, Page 5

THE VICTORIOUS TRIUMPH. mi ■+ WONDERFUL RECO&D OF SUCCESSES ON TRIUMPH MOTOR CYCLES. At the H,B. Motor Cycle , dub's sports Md on fhe HastingS ' Racecourse on Boxing Day, the Triumphs again practically swept" the board. Out: of an entry of 12 machines representing 5 different makes. tihe Triumph's' secured ten. firsts, seven seconds, and' 4 itihirds ouit of a possible eleven events. This performance is all tie more remarkable when ib is considered ■flhat the Triumphs Obad> to concede Barge handicaps to machines of equal power and -six" of the ten first machines were rididen by amateur riders'. On Saturday. December 30th, Mr J. L. Braitihwaite left for Wellington on his Triumph motor cycle to make an attempt oni the existing figures of the Wellington, to Napier recordviz.. Sirs 35mm., ostablisfced by Mr H; L. Sdhaeffer on New Year's Day. 1909, also on a Triumph. In spite of several attempts on other makes of machines, this record has 1 stood to the credit of the Triumph for three years. Mr Btnatihwiaite left the Wellington Post Office at 4.20 a.m. < on New Year'® Day, and; arrived at the Napier Post Office at 10.57 a.m., his time being 6hrs. 38min., Towering the previous, record by nearly two hours. The Triumph ran perfectly from start to finish, the only two stops being totake in petrol and oil. It is' only perfect machines made firom tfoie finest material procurable that can. average 33£ miles an hour over 230 miles of New Zealknd roads. < Thiose who were at the Napier Post Office at the finish could not help but (remark on tihe perfect condition of the machine at the finish. The Triumph) is not only made for speed. It lias proved itself to be the machine for (hard work and long wear, and is perfectly adapted; to Now Zealand roads. We can deliver botJi fixed and free engine miodels from stock, and would be pleased to give trial runs to intending purchasers at all times'. TOURIST MOTOR CO., LTD., Sole Agents for Triumph and B.S.A. Motor Cycles, Waixarapa, Haw keg Bay, and Poverty Bay. ROBERT POOK, Local Agent.

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