The Classic MotorCycle

Tough times at endurance trial

This fabulous picture is quite simply fascinating, a wonderful study, a case of the closer one looks, the more there is to be seen.

First though, the occasion. Held over a Friday and Saturday in early May 1912, it was the Mersey Motor Club Twenty-four Hours Trial, to give the event its (fairly self-explanatory) title as recorded at the time.

Held over a ‘severe course’ partly in North Wales, the winner was to

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