TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10620, 27 April 1912, Page 5

TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911

Undoubtedly the neatest test that any motor cycle has ever undergone, and one .that iucluded the most varied i&nditiions, was the Tourist Trophy Contest, held on the Ifele of Man, England, in. July, 1911. The course was a circuit of 37..> .miles.,-covered five times, a total of 187 -miles. It was over,the ordinary roads of the: island., fuir cf turns and" kinks, with a surface aimeh bdow the English standard'. Besides' numerous - ordinary grades-, Snaefel Mountain, a* climb of four miles,, with a corresponding descent, was .surmounted on. each circuit. For ithis great contest fifty-nine machines entered, the (best tihat Europe could produce, and an whose construction many months were consumed; and c-f these only twenty-eight .survived, elo- < quent evidence of the immense sever:.tv of the task. Among the starters were five "Indian*," a:id not only did every ono of the five finish, btit the "Indian" captured "the first three places. ISuelf a performance is unprecedented, and the (most- wonderful showing ever lhlode.by.any motor cycle. Tcif cover this long course- without a fjailtor at tt\w tremendous speed necessary for success; to survive the continuous .strain of rough roads and hard driving without a isingle anechniiical failure; to climib. the imiles cif fcAee.pnrcun.tain roads witiliout a sign of iburnin-g out, are demonstrations of efficiency, endurance and mechanical (oerfectian that have never been equalled;, and will never be surpassed. Mr J, O. Ewington, of Masterton, has secured the Wairarapa agency of the "Indian."