MOTOR CYCLE RACING
LIGHTWEIGHT TOURIST TROPHY: (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 17th June. The International Tourist Trophy race at the Isle of Man for Jight,weight motor cycles with engines under 260 c.e. was won by Graham Walker. Tyrell Smith finished second and Mellors third. Foreign machines seemed outclassed. The. Italian crack rider, Glicrsi came in sixth but was riding a British cycle. The little engines with their piston diameter no bigger than a wine glass stood the race with astonishing efficiency. CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD BRITAIN’S SUPREMACY CHALLENGED (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 18th June. The motor cycle speed championship of the world will be contested tomorrow in the Isle of Man, and the world’s best riders from Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Italy and Switzerland and elsewhere will he challenging Britain’s supremacy in this senior race. The winners of the two Tourist Trophy races already held participate, anil it is expected that a hip speed of about 80 miles per hour, involving a mountain descent ttt 100 miles hourly will be reached.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 June 1931, Page 5
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