WONDERFUL ESCAPE
MOTOR’S THREE SOMERSAULTS. OCCUPANTS ONLY BRUISED. LONDON, June 1. Crashing over the inner fence of the traok at Brooklands, in a swirl of dust and smoke, while going at over 100 miles an hour, Major Coe’s Vauxhall, in which he was racing for the Gold Vase, somersaulted thrice. Both Coe and his mechanic miraculously escaped with a few bruises. Rampon, driving a Fiat, won the race, his average speed being 961 miles an hour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19505, 13 June 1925, Page 17
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