TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10673, 1 July 1912, Page 5

TOURIST TROPHY RACE, 1911

Undoubtedly the neatest test that any motor cycle has ever undergone, anil 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 imwoh below the English standard. Besides numerous ordinary grades, Sna*fell Mountain, a climb of four miles, with a corresponding descent, was surmounted on each circuit. For (this great contest fifty-nine machines entered, the best that Europe could produce, and in whose construction many months wei*e consumed; and of these only twenty-eight survived, eloquent evidence of the immense severity of the task. Among the starters were five "Indians." and not only did every one of the five finish, biro the "Indian" captured the . first , three places. Such a performance is unprecedented, and the most wonderful showing ever made by any motor cycle. To cover this loner course without n Salter! at the tremendous speed ne--cessary for success; to survive the continuous strain of rough roads and Hard driving without a single mech.finical failure; to cßmfbthe miles_ ot steep mountain roads witlhout a sign of burning out. are demonstrations ot efficiency, endurance and mechanical (perfection that >have never eqiiialiled, and will never be surpassed. Mr .7. C. EwinpkrtT, of Master-ton, has secured the Wairarap« agency of the "Indian."