TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10668, 25 June 1912, Page 3

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 July, 1911. The course was a circuit of 37J- miles, covered five times, a total of 187 .miles. It was over the ordinary roads of the island, full of turns and kinks, with a surface imu'ch below the English standard. Besides numerous ordinary grades, J Snaefell Mountain, a climb of four miles, with a corresponding descent, was .surmounted on each circuit. For I this great contest fifty-nine .machines ; entered, the ibest tliat Europe could ] produce, and i.u whose construction many months were consumed; and of these only twenty-eight survived, elo-; quen.t evidence of the immense sever-' ity of the task. Among the starters were five "Indians," and not only did every one of the five finish, but the "Indian" captured the first three places. Such a performance is unprecedented, and the most wonderful showing ever miade by any motor cycle. To cover this Ions: course without a falter at the .tremendous speed necessary for success; to survive the continuous strain of rough roads and hard driving without a single mechanical failure; to climib the miles of steep mountain roads witlhout a sign of burning out, are demonstrations of efficiency, endurance and mechanical ' (perfection that 'have never .been equalled!, and (will never be 'Surpassed. Mr J. G, BwingtoiT, of. iMasterion, lias secured the Wairarap« agency of the "Indian." i