Cycling and Motoring.

Free Lance, Volume XVII, Issue 914, 18 January 1918, Page 23

Cycling and Motoring.

Mr. Boyd Edkins, the well-known New South .Wales motorist, lias sue-, ceeded in establishing a particularly fine drive under adverse road conditions over tli© inter-State route between Brisbane and Sydney—a distance of 637 miles. Owing to recent heavy rains in Queensland, Mr. .Edwins was nearly abandoning his proposed attempt on the existing figures, but decided to tackle Mi". F. Birtles' record of 29 hours 35 minutes despite the fact that the road was wefll-nigh- impossible in plaices. Efe left Brisbane at' 2 a.m. Friday and arrived at Sydney at three minutes past four o'clock on Saturday morning, his - time for the journey being 26 hours 3 minutes, exactly 3-J----hours better than the previous record. Many delays occurred on the journey, and considerable time was lost oVing to breakages. .It was a remarkable feat to' get through at all in the oir/'cuanstances. Mr. Edkins' mount was a 25-h.p. Prince Henry VauxhalL shod with Dunlop tyres, which came through the gruelling drive without being touched. Mr. Edkins is the present holder of the Melbourne-Sydney (565 miles) record which stands at 16 hours 55 minutes, one of the greatest drives yet recorded in this country.