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THE HONGKONG

ROUGH GOING IN LADIES' RACE.

Thirteen of 18 Competitors Finish Course.

WEATHER HAMPERS THE CONTESTANTS.

TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1930.

mounted, and after a certain: amount of assistance climbed well and proceeded on her way.

The performance of the cars was not Illuminating, but this was not so much the fault of the cars or of their pilots as of the terrible urface on which, in places, it was Impossible to obtain wheel grip.

The best climb was that made by Mrs. Vaughan, who was driving The route chosen by the queither were they for that matter a Wolseley Hornet; she made a organisers of the Peaks and Lakes to H. J. O. Ripley. He was chief very clean and comparatively fast trial for members of the Women'a marshal on Park Rash, and during ascent, which was rightly applaud- Automobile and Sports Associa- the run through the night to reached by the small band of spectators tion recently was one to make the hill had experienced several who had gathered to see the fun. eyes hardened trials onthusiasts a punctures, the last of which he An Austin Seven driven by Miss trifle nervous. Not satisfied with was dealing with at Kettlewell, Symington failed and was towed

After assistance the such gradients as Park Rash, jabout half an hour before the first up. Askrigg Brow, Weat Stoncadale competitor was due at that point, could have proceeded under its and Kirkstone Pass, some colonial where the real fun of the day own power had it not been for the fact that the tow rope became sections, which after the heavy bogan,

entangled with the front axle, and rain of a week or two were in a

it as necessary to hold matters very bad state, were included, anil

up whilst it was disentangled. made the business of time-keeping

While referring to assistance, it not at all easy.

Road a Quagmire.

The surface of Park Rash was ir a very bad state and caused a

car

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Brunell, who had managed to maintain time schedule, a trying feat in the circumstances.

Taken as a whole, the trial was a great success, and, gwing to the not too large number of entries, was a friendly affair and re- miniscent of the trials of 'old'daya.

Of the eighteen car competitors succession of failures, and, com-would be well if the men engaged who started only thirteen succeed-pared with the state of the hill on for the purpose were given a M.C.C. London-Edinburgh word of advice on how to handle ed in Anishing the course, which the

a car, for in several cases heavy must have been one of the most trial, it was like a quagmire.

The weather during the night, hands were laid on door handles The officials were hampered In difficult they had ever experienced. The competitors, however, were and until about ten o'clock in the ard such parts that could quite their work by the weather, and in several cases were held up'en not the only people connected with morning, had been perfect, but easily be wrenched away from the

The failure of Misa Jiroute, with the result that com- the affair who had "spots of upon the competitors reaching body. bother"-not by a long way. Mrs, what has been described in cer- Shillitoe's Singer was apparently petitors arrived at timing checks to find officialdom missing. One Goold, the very able secretary of tain editions of the daily Press due to engine trouble, for when the Club, who had been on the as the Yorkshire Terror, a thick the car came to a standstill low

such personage, in attempting to get from Kettlewell village to road for two days marking out the mist. came up and it commenced down the bonfier was raised, after

Kirkstone. Pass, experienced two route, had trouble with her car to rain in a way that appears to which the vehicle was run back Later, however,

tyre barata and a spot of really which necessitated its being left be peculiar to that part of the down the hill.

The stoutest effort of the driver made another attempt

good bother with the internal at a garage somewhere in York- country..

summit, which workings of his car, which pre- shire, and in order to proceed with the run was surely that of Miss to reach the

vented him from doing any more the important business of route Lane, who was riding a solo motor manoeuvre was eventually accom-

officiating that day.

The An aged rycle, the only one in the trial, and plished with a certain amount of finding, she borrowed.

elements, in fact, did not treat the Morris, which, promptly protested. it must want a lot of enthusiasm assistance-a sporting effort.

mighty with the respect, that was against the projected hard going to play a lone hand on such a trip.

Mist Over the Moors.

their due.-The Autocar. over a trials course by breaking On Park Rash she came to grief a apring, effectively putting it out flow down on the hill, and the

The run from Park Rash to of action. Truly, the fates were machine fell on top of her. Askrigg Brow, the next obstacle, not being kind to Mrs. Goold, Nothing daunted, however, she re-which was climbed by the majori

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ty without much trouble, was made in pouring rain and with a nasty mist over the moors, the cars sliding all over the place, so bad was the surface. Weat Stonesdale and Tan Hill were sur- mounted fairly easily, as in the: bigger Edinburgh event, the chief trouble coming from wheelspla, which, however, did not mean loss

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The famous Kirkstone Pass, mentioned oft-times in reports of trials in the early days, was the final plece de résistance of the day. The weather conditions were still very bad, and the Pass was in a very nasty condition, a combination of difficulties which was overcome by some skilful handling and a certain amount of luck. The first car to arrive at the finish at the Patterdale Hotel was a Bianchi piloted by Miss

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