Cycling Notes.

Southern Cross, Volume 12, Issue 15, 9 July 1904, Page 10

Cycling Notes.

Farther particulars of Mr Cecil Edge’s (England) attempt to drive a 15 h.p. Napier oar for 2,000 miles through England and Scotland without stopping the engine, are to hand. Mr Edge failed to get through the big task he set himself, but for all that he covered the remarkable distance of 1,107 f miles before he was compelled to stop the engine, and then the trouble was due to a faulty chain. . .*** Mr 0. J. Glidden, a well-known American motorist, who, last year, drove a 25 h.p. car across the Arctic circle, will shortly start upon another tour, in which he will cover 25,000 miles. He intends carrying out the following itinerary :—France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Palestine, Algeria, Tunis, Turkey, China, Japan, India, Ceylon, West Indies, Egypt, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and America. He will be driving the car that carried him so successfully through his last venture, but will use Dunlop motor tyres, which he considers most suitable to negotiate the trying roads and tracks that will be encountered, *** The rapid advance of motoring in England can be gathered from the fact that in London itself 2,914 cars and 2,063 motor cycles have been registered since the beginning of the year. # * * A motor boat • race is to be held across the English channel from Calais to Dover, on August Bth. The race will be of an international character, and will be conducted by the Automobile Club of Prance. * * * Mr A. M.Campbell, a Tasmanian motor cyclist, recently established a record by motoring from Launceston to Hobart, a distance of 116 miles, in the good time of 4 hours*3l minutes. The train time for the same journey is 5 hours 59 minutes. # * * One thousand miles is said to have been recently ridden by an American motorist, Mr A. A. Hanson, in 55 hours, an average speed of 18 miles an hour for the full time.