TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10626, 3 May 1912, Page 5

TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911

Undoubtedly the neatest test that any motor cycle ha* ever undergone, and one that included the most varied Condition*?., was the Tourist Trophy Contest, held on the Isle of Man, England, dn Jiily, 1911. The course was a circuit of miles, covered live - inner*, .a total of 187 miles. .It was i over 'the 'ordinary roads of the island. 1 tfuil cl tuniß and kinks, with a ■su.r----3 face hi-low the English standard, i Besides r.auuerous ordinary grades, j Snacfell Mountain, a. climb of" four i mules,, with a corresponding descent, was -surmounted en. each circuit. For tihis great eoutrat fifty-nine machines entered, the ! bc«'b lihat Europe could produce, and in whose construction a many (months wove emi.su.med ; and of r these only twenty-eight survived, elo- » quent evidence of the sover- „ ity of the task. Among the starters I were live "indians," and not only did e ovary .on? of the live finWh, hut the £ "Indian" captured the first three places. &uch a pt-iformance is unq precodented, and the most wonderful i Knowing ever made by any motor cyi. c!p. *Tb cover this lon.* - course .without (J a falter at the tremendous speed ned oessary for ; to survive the continuous •.ytrai.n «f rough roads a-ncl hard driving without a ■single incchaiiicnl failure; to climb the 'miles _ ol mountain roads witlhmit a sign " r.f burning out. are demonstrations ol I efficiency,/ endurance and niechanica': „ perfection that 'have never been equal- , led and will never bo .surpassed. Mi f I 'O TCwingtorr. ft Masterton, ha* Secured tbe'Wairavapa agency of the .' "Indian."