Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

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 the Isle of Man, England, in Jiuly, 1911. The course wasa circuit of 37£ miles, covered five times, ia total of 187 miles. It was over (the"ordinary roads of the island, full., qf- turns and: kinks, with a surface imu'eh below the English standard. Besideis numerous ordinary grades, Snaefell Mountain, a climb of four nules, ■ with: a corresponding descent* was (surmounted on each circuit. For this great contest fifty-nine machines entered, itthe (best 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 tihe task. Among the starterswere five "Indians," and not only <&£. • every one of the five finisn, but ifche "Indian" captured the first three places. Such a. performance is unprecedented, and the most wonderful showing ever miade hy any motor cycle. To cover this lone course without a felter at the .tremendous speed necessary for success; to survive the continuous .strain of rough roads and? hard driving without a single meehanieal failure; to cMmib _ the miles oif steep mountain; roads witihout a signof burning out, are demonstrations ,of efficiency, endurance and mechanical perfection that ihave never been equalled, and twill never be 'surpassed. Mr J. O. Bwington, of Masterton, Las secured the Wa&rarapa agency of the "Indian."

Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19120613.2.21

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10658, 13 June 1912, Page 5

Word count
Tapeke kupu
244

TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911 Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10658, 13 June 1912, Page 5

TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911 Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10658, 13 June 1912, Page 5

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert