The ra.A.c. Trials.
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Complete Scoring= sheets for the Road Tests—Arrival at Dalston—Successful
Running the General Rule.
There is nothing more to be related, and everybody is hoping that the announcement of the awards will not be delayed for long. The complete scoring-sheets for the road tests will be found on pages 152 to 155, and they tell their own story, without need for embellishment. The proportion of non-stop runs, during the last week of the trials, was exceptionally good, and this fact teStifies to the absence of necessity for the small troubles which were encountered between London and Bristol. A number of makers had not, as we pointed out at the time, been able to adjust the mechanisms, owing to late delivery from the works. We confidently believe that, if the trials had been continued for another month, the later records would have been considerably better than those which are now committed to paper, and which will hereafter be handed down to posterity in the judges' report. The weather continued fine to the last, and there was an interested concourse of spectators in the neighbourhood of the depot at Shrubland Road, Dalston, where a portion of the spacious premises of the Vanguard Motorbus Company, Limited, as illustrated at the foot of this page, furnished ample room for the unloading and dismantling operations which necessarily preceded the final examinations and comparisons. An old Liverpool observer makes some interesting comparisons on pages 156 and 157.