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NEW MOTOR-CYCLE RECORDS 93 MILES AN HOUR. TIME TESTS AT MOTORDROME. Received January 4, 11.55 p.m. MELBOURNE, Jan. 4. Spencer Stratton, riding a 31 horse power motor-cycle at the Motordrome, smashed all records for the track, travelling at 93 miles an hour. He covered each of three laps in 14 seconds, and two miles 256 yards in Imin. 36sec. The previous lap record was 14 2-ssec.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19737, 5 January 1927, Page 7
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68MORE SPEED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19737, 5 January 1927, Page 7
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