Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Sir, bart · London Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 42
THE MOTOR-CAR 13 right to say such a race was not to be run another time atnight. The general mean of his velocity was 1991 miles an hour;the maximum was eighteen and a half miles an hour, betweenOrleans and Tours. The vehicle which had accomplished this marvellous recordwithout a single break-down… … No. 5. Winner of the Paris-Bordeaux Race, 1895, driven by M. Levassor(Four h.-p. Panhard and Levassor) men riding. It had three speeds, six, twelve and a half, andeighteen and a half miles an hour, the normal number of re-volutions being 750. The motor, a new type of Phoenix built by M. Levassor,…
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