TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10657, 12 June 1912, Page 5

TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911

Undoubtedly the neatest test that any motor cycle has ever undergone, and one that .included the most varied conditions, was the Tourist Trophy ' Contest, held on l the Isle of Man, England, in J.wly, 1911. The course was a circuit of 37-J- miles, covered five times, <a total of 187 miiles. It was over the ordinary roads of the island. fuJl of turns and kinks, with a surface imuoh below the English standard.' Besides numerous ordinary grades, SnaetfeJil Mountain., a climb of four miles,, with a corresponding descent, was .surmounted on each circuit. For .this great contest fifty-nine machines entered, the foest that Europe could produce, and in whose construction many months were consumed; and of these only twenty-eight survived, eloquent evidence of the immense severity of the task. Airioiig the starters were five "Indians," and not only did every one of the five finish, hut the "Indian" captured the first three places. Such a performance is " unprecedented, and the most wonderful showing ever mlade <by any motor cycle. To cover this 'long course without a falter at the tremendous speed necessary for success; to .survive the continue™ strain of rough roads and hard dlriving without a single imechaniical failure; to rißmlb _ the males < oif steep mountain roads without a sign of burning out, aire demonstrations of efficiency, endurance and mechanical (perfection that have never ibeen equalled, .and will never be .surpassed. Mr J. C. Ewington;, ©f Masterton, has secured the Wairarapa agency or the "Indian."