Apart from receiving the coveted shield. Alan also won a
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five-day trip to Germany where he visited the Tip Top tyre repair material plant.
Our photo shows winner Alan Lorne (left) receiving his trophy from George Marshall, the editor of Tyres & Accessories.
• To commemorate 100 years of the car, Michelin has donated a set of ceramic panels — exact copies of the famous originals that decorate Michelin House in London — to the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.
Formerly the London HQ of the celebrated tyre company, Michelin House is decorated with ceramic panels depicting dramatic episodes from the early history of the automobile.
Manufactured in Stoke-onTrent, 100 of each of the 34 panels has been commissioned by the Khachadourian Gallery, Europe's leading art dealer; and appropriately enough, it is number 100 that Michelin has presented to Beaulieu.
One of the sets shows the 1903 Paris-Madrid "Race of Death", so called because of its premature finish at Bordeaux, because of an alarming number of fatalities en route.