THE VICTORIOUS TRIUMPH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10582, 13 March 1912, Page 5

THE VICTORIOUS TRIUMPH.

WONDERFUL. i;i7vA>RD OF S-UGM CESSES ON TRIUMPH MOTOR CYCLES. At the H.B. Motor Cycle Club's sports iheld on the Hastings Racecourse, on Boxing Day, the Triumphs again p/actically wept the board. Out of an entry of 12 machines' representing 5 different makes* the Triumphs secured ten firsts, seven seconds, and 4 thirds out of a, possibleeleven events. This performance is all the moire remarkable when it.is considered tlhat the Triumphs had to N concede targe handicaps to machines of equaJ power and six of the ten first machines were ridden by amateu® riders. On Saturday, December 30th, Mr J. L. Braithwaite left for Wellington on his Triumph motor cycle to make an attempt on: the existing figures of the Wellington to. Napier record.— viz., Bhrs 35mi®., ostablisihjed by Mr H. L. Schaeffer on New Year's Day, 1909, also on a, Triumph- In spite of several attempts on other makes of machines, this record has l stood to tbe credit of the Triumph, for three years. 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., his time being 6brs. 38min., Towering tie previous record by nearly .two hourb. 'lie Triiumph ran perfectly from start to finish,, the only two stops being to take in petrol and oil. It j is only perfect machines made from the finest material procurable that can average 33£ miles an hour over 230 miles of New Zealiand roads. _ Those who were at the Napier Post Office at the finish coufd not help but remark on the perfect condition of the machine at the finish. The Triumph is not- only for speed. It has proved itself to be the machine for t (hard work and long wear, and is perfectly adapted to New Zealand roads. We can deliver both fixed aiii free engine models from stock, and would be pleased to give trial runs to intending purchaser's at alii times. TOURIST MOTOR CO., LTD., Sole Agents for Triumph and 8.8.A. Motor Cycles, Wairarapa, Hawkefl Bay, and Poverty Bay. ROBERT POOK, Lo- 1 Agent.