MOTOR-CYCLING
ISLE OF MAN CONTESTS [British Official vVirelcst>.j RUGBY, June 18. The motor-cycle speed championship of the world will be contested to-mor-row in the Isle of Man and the world’s best riders from Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and elsewhere are challenging Britain’s supremacy in this senior race. The winners of the two tourist trophy races already held will participate, ami it is expected that, the lap speed of about 80 miles an hour, involving a mountain descent, at 110 miles an hour, will be reached.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 144, 20 June 1931, Page 9
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87MOTOR-CYCLING Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 144, 20 June 1931, Page 9
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