SIDE-CAR ACHIEVEMENTS.
• Although the side-car is generally conceded to be a "mechanical monstrosity," it succeeds remarkably well in maintaining it* popularity and usefulness. So long, as the side-car is well constructed, | and the wheels are carefully aligned, the ; wear and tear is remarkably small. Side- ' car outfits showed up well in the Easter j motor-cycling meeting held in Western Victoria. A reliability run from Melbourne to 'Mortlake, a distance of 150^ miles, was run for all classes of motor-' cyclists, and side-car machines were in the majority. In the count of points, only three riders came through without rosing any marks, and all three were users of the combination. On the Mortlake course a sixty-eight mile race for side-car machines was held, and this was covered by a 7 h.-p. machine in lhr 24min 27sec—a pace of nearly forty-
eight miles an hour—which must be regarded as a remarkable achievement over euch a distance.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 99, 26 April 1917, Page 10
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