Cars in books, May 1973
Usually these references to cars which figure in non-motoring books are based on what I come upon in old volumes found on library shelves, or lent or donated by sympathetic…
MOTOR CYCLE RECORDS AT BROOKLANDS.
The following records were broken by J. S. Worters at Brooklands recently on a 175 c.c. Cotton :
50 miles : Average speed, 59 miles 62 yards per hour. One hour : 50 miles 109r yards. roo miles : Average speed, 58 miles 9 yards
2 hours : no miles.
200 kilometres : At 98 km. 440, 300 kilometres: At 92 km. 250.
3 hours : 171 miles 962 yards.
200 miles : Average speed of 57 miles 31 yards.