606 AUTOMOBILE RACES. 



Class 2. — Cars from 4h hundredweights to 7% hundredweights. 



Class 1. 



De Dion-Bouton tricycle 



Do 



Do 



Teste 



Osmond . . 

 Collignon 



42.38 

 41.04 

 35.89 



Seven other tricycles came through at various intervals, the last being Bnquet, who occupied 

 13h43"'10«. 



The average mileages of the first seven arrivals will be found to be 

 less than those we cabled from Bordeaux, but at that time we were 

 not in possession of the total distance neutralized by the controls, and 

 the times given us by the timekeeper were less 2" 37™ the time of 

 neutralization. The distance so neutralized was l7i miles, which 

 accounts for the reduction of the averages previouslj' given. Although 

 Messrs. Harmsworth, Bird, and Pemberton were njiembers of the 

 A.C.G.B. and I., and Mr. Bird was actually nominated as one of 

 the judges by the French club, while Colonel Crompton represented 

 the British war ofiice committee, they received very scant courtesy 

 at the hands of the clubmen. Mr. Bird at least might, we think, 

 have been offered something more than the hospitality of the road, 

 wherein he remained throughout the day. It was only after meet- 

 ing with our old friend M. Paul Rousseau, the director of Le Velo, 

 that we obtained access to the timekeeper, and were able to get the 

 particulars always freely offered to representatives of the press. 



The little party of the six English returned to Paris on the follow- 

 ing day per the Paris rapide, which occupied .1" 26"' 16^ more in 

 making the journe}^ than had Fournier on the previous day. 



IV. 



PARIS TO BERLIN. 



On the 27th of June, 1901, at half-past 3 in the morning, the official 

 starter of the Automobile Club of France sent off the first automobile 

 from Paris for Berlin, and in turn, every two minutes, 108 vehicles 

 followed after the first. 



The day before, all these vehicles had been put in first-rate order by 

 the attendants of the automobile club and the proprietors had paid to 

 the customs as a guarantj^ that they would be brought back to France 

 12 per cent of their value, which amounted to the handsome sum of 

 1,250,000 francs. 



"Translated from L' Illustration, Paris, July 6, 1901. 



