MOTOR-CYCLING.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18152, 15 August 1924, Page 6

MOTOR-CYCLING.

NOTES, The last American mail brings, sews of ti© death or Gene TV alter tiis holder of the world's speed rscorci at 115 m.ti.h-, ths famous laQi2.ll rider. He was injured during tie t^ Tj otcjcV in June, 'rhilo practising c-n the .Sirtra'dsberg track. The track was m poor condition, aid caused a spill for Walker. He died as a result of tie injuries sustained. ' Australia, with a population or iess than six million imported no fewer than 4000 motor cycles last, year from. U.S.A. ■ Italv holds between 70 and ZO rac'-cr-contests in the year. Although aviation m its simplest form, as exemplified by the metorcvcie engined light aeroplane, is as a movement still young and iindev&!oped : there is no doubt that ever-'Lually it will attain much greater dimensions and importance. The light aeroplane of the future may be a motor-cycle witli wings, capable of use 011 the road in its normal capacity, and by the touch of a lever t-o spread if s ioldiug wings, of gliding gracefully into tho air. In that event machines without wings would be like .machines without gear boxes to-day—out-of-date. hen the motor-cycle of twenty years ago is compared with the motor-cycl6 of to-day it is,difficult to discard this "rision as a possibility for 1943. lor the present it.is enough that the lipht aeroplane ba 'developed side by side with the .motor-cycle, and if "anyone not already an 'airman is going to : under take the pioneer = work —and that apparently is what the movement most needs to-dav, —it will in -all nrobability bo the sporting motor-cyclist: