MOTOR CONTEST.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 48, 27 February 1905, Page 5

MOTOR CONTEST.

+ RESULTS OF THE TRIAL. [VnitSfl ABSOCIATIO.V.I MELBOURNE, 25th FftbrUnry. A lnree, onthuSlnstic cfbwd, including the* Sldto Governor, who eorlgralulated the contestants, assembled lo vvithens tho finish of tho Dunlop Motor Reliability Contest from Sydney to Melbourne. Tlio first to arrive was H. L. Stevons, of Victoria, with a twolvo-horso-powof Danncq car. He covered the last stago of tho journey, 100 miles, In 3hrs 24inin. Next came Charles H. Kellow, of Molbourne, in a soven-liorsc-power Talbot car, lime 4lira I4inm. E. IJ. Maillard, of Now South Wnlea, was third, with a tweke-hdrse-potter Dnizier car; tinio, 3hrs 27min. The first ihotor cytlcs wcro riddon by Withers and Jonios (Victorinns), Who ennin in 81tnilt und 64mih respectively bohitid Stevens, whited nverngo timo for tho whnlo journey was 24 miles nn ..our. Tlio iniJctnuini points, 2600, according to tho conditions of tho contest, we're socurcd In various sections of the jonrnoy by Stevens's Darrarq car, ancl W. fcj. ilosa'a Tarrant oar, in tho class for heavy cars, whilst Ornvth, Coleman, and Hall obtained tho maximum points for light cars, and James and V. H. Card scored similarly in the motor cyclo class. All tho successful competitors wcro Victoriann. A further contest, from Melbourno to Ballarat, is (o lm arranged, to enablo a finivl decision to \m made.