A "SOAP-BOX DERBY"
Between 7000 and 8000 people lined half a mile of road at Prospect (South Australia) to see 125 boys contest Australia's first "Soap-box Derby." For nearly three hours contestants ranging from eight years old to.fourteen bumped, skidded, and rattled down a hill in their carts. Crash-helmeted speed demons defied the laws of safety and rocketed over the bumps in the bitumen. Twenty-, miles an hour was easy even to the slowest of the speedsters. There were no serious crashes, but the huge crowd pressed so far on to the road that they were in danger of being hit. Amazing skill and nerve were shown by the boys in the control of their conveyances. ' Police officers and officials of the Racing Drivers' Association, which sponsored the Derby, were kept busy pushing the crowd back. The winner of the contest received a bicycle.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1938, Page 4
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144A "SOAP-BOX DERBY" Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1938, Page 4
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