CYCLING AND MOTORING NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 79, 15 November 1911, Page 3

CYCLING AND MOTORING NOTES.

It lias been practically decided that an Automobile Show will be held m Melbourne next March by the Automobile Club of Victoria. The movement has boon well supported by tjio motor and allied trades and sufficient guarantees are forthcoming to ensure that the promoting body will be taking no financial risks in organising the exhibition. The dates will probably bo March 2nd to March 9th inclusive—a. week that covers the Newmarket and Australian Cup, two big race attractions that always fill Melbourne. The show will be held at the Melbourne Exhibition, a building splendidly adapted for the purpose. An entirely new type of motor car chassis will he landed in Melbourne at an early date, and one that promises a radical departure in chassis suspension and springing, if it does all that is claimed for it. The invention is a Victorian one that has been taken np by a strong financial syndicate. The original model was well tested, and gave astonishing results over the roughest of roads on solid tyres. The chassis was suspended on a compound cantilever system, entirely new to any existing modes of springing, and from trials given thoroughly convinced those who have bought interests in tire patent. The original model was forwarder! Home to a well-known French linn of car manufacturers, who are said to he much impressed with the idea—so much so that they are adopting the idea and now making models for the Australian market.

The attempt by the Sydney motor cyclist, J. Fair, to better his record of, ■lShr (Omin from Sydney to Mclbourno (575 miles) failed, Fair being so distressed by the shaking up on the bad roads that he abandoned the ride at Gnndagai. On this occasion the starting point was iVlclbunrnc. Albury (201 miles) took ]lhr 55jnia to reach, and it was evident when Fair reached here that physically the strain was too much. The rider who tackles this run wants to be in the pink of condition and as hard as nails, for the ride from Seymour to Albury and (Jcrmanton to Adelong Crossing is a particularly severe one. Again, the roads and tracks have not recovered from the winter yet, and will not be at their best until latci in the year.