ANCIENT MOTOR-CARS TRIUMPH IN RACE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19236, 25 November 1930, Page 8

ANCIENT MOTOR-CARS TRIUMPH IN RACE.

1903 MODEL COVERS 56 MILES IN 83 MINUTES. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON. November 23. A noisy but triumphant de Dietrich racing Textor car, built in 1903, won “the Old Crocks’ Race.” It covered fifty-six miles and a quarter in S3min 55sec. A 1903 Mercedes followed thirt> r -one minutes later. A Daimler, built in 1896, also finished, though it lost a tyre and broke the chain of the drive on three occasions. Apart from the abolition of speed limit, the event was organised to celebrate the death of the Red Flag Law, in 1896, which forced engined vehicles on the roads to be preceded by a red flag. _

Exposure to cold gives one’s skin a purple tinge on account of the faulty circulation of the blood. Exposure to cold arrests the heart in the exercise of its office, and so stops the supply of arterial blood, which is of a bright red colour, from the heart to the extremities. It accumulates, therefore, in the large vessels proceeding immediately from the main spring, and there is no ingress tb the heart for the blood returning from the extremities along the veins, which is of a purple or near13’ black colour. It is this blood which, seen through the skin, gives it a purple tinge.