STRATTON'S RECORD.
93 MILES PER HOUR. MELBOURNE, January 4. Spencer Stratton (New Zealand), riding a 31 h.p. motor-cycle at the Melbourne motordrome to-day smashed all the records for th-e track.
He travelled at a speed gf 93 miles an hour and covered each of the three laps in 14s and 2 miles 256 yds in 1m 365. The previous lap record was 14 2-ss.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1927, Page 7
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64STRATTON'S RECORD. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1927, Page 7
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