TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10628, 6 May 1912, Page 5

TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911

I Undoubtedly the neatest test that ' any ihotor cycle has ,ever undergone, and oiie ibhsut included the most varied •'gmditSonfi, was the Tourist Trophy Contest, held on the Isle of Man, England, in Jaily, 1911. The course was a circuit of 37 J miles, covered five times, ia total of 187 males'. It wa!s over ffche ordinary roads of the' island, (full of burns laiwF kinks. _ with a 1 surface imuch 'below the English standard. Beside© numerous ordinary grades., Snaefelil Mountain, a. climb or four 'miles,, with a corresponding descent, was (surmounted on. each circuit-. till is ;groat contest fifty-nine machines entered, itihe Ibest itihat Europe could prodiuce, and' in whose construction many months were consumed; and of these only twenty-eight- survived, eloquent evidence of the immense severity of the task. Among the starters wore five "Indians," and not. only did every one of .the five finish, tout the "Indian", captured the first tihree places. Such » performance is unprecedented, and the imost wonderful showing ever mla.de toy any motor cycle. To .cover tihis 10112 course without a fialit&r vit the ,tremendous speed necessary for success; to .survive tihe continuous strain of rough roads and hard driving without a single 'mechanical failure; to ehmto the miles of steep mountain roads without a sign of (burning out, are demonstrations #tf efficiency, endurance and .mechanical perfection that have never been equalled, and mill never be surpassed. Mr ,1: O. Ewington, of Masterton, lias secured the Wairarapa agency of the "Indian."