TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10672, 29 June 1912, Page 7

TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911

„ Undoubtedly the. neatest test that moior .cycle :has: ever /ande|'gone, 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 37$ 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 tmuch below;the English standard. Besides numerous ordinary • grades, Snaefell Mountain, a climb of four miles, with a . corresponding descent, w^ : .surmounted on each circuit. For this great contest fifty-nine machines entered, the Ibest that Europe could (produce, and in / whose construction many months we/e consumed; and of :th>es©'only twenty-«ght survived, eloquent evidence of the 'immense severity ;of tihe task.;' • Among the starters were five ''lndians," and not only did every one of the five fmislh, but the "Indian" captured, the; first three places. Such. ia performance is unprecedented, and . the most *, wonderfulc showing ever niade % any motor cy-. cle. To cover this lone course without a Mter; at the ■ tremendous speed necessary , for success; to survive the J continuous of rough roads'and hard driving without - a single anical ,failure^to; nwles ..;df j steep moui£tani : ro«d,s ' without. -a sign - of burning out, are demonstrations of. ; efßciency,.ondurance and ; niechanical perfection that have never hwi'equalled!, and will never bfe surpassed. -Mr' J. O. Bwington, of iMasterton, has secured the W ©agency of the "Indian."