British Team for the International Motor-Cycle Cup
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
This article was published in the journal Field on 8 april 1905.
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An excellent entry has been received for the trial race to select the British team for the international motor-cycle cup. No fewer than eighteen machines are entered, and a particularly gratifying circumstance is the inscribing of motor-cycle's by seven private owners, some of whom will themselves ride. This is satisfactory, for the stronger the private sporting element in motor racing of any kind the more the public interest in it will be, and also the freer it will be from suspicion of unfair play. The private owners are:
Entrant. Machine. Rider. Charles Jarrott 6 h.p. J.A.P. W. Hodgkinson. Rev. B. H. Davies 8 h.p. Westlake H. P. Maffert. Rev. B. H. Davies 8 h.p. Westlake Not named. A. B. White 9 h.p. Roc A. B. White. Sir A. Conan Doyle 9 h.p. Roc T. H. Tessier. C. B. Franklin 6 h.p. J.A.P. C. B. Franklin. O. L. Bickford 6 h.p. J.A.P. O. L. Bickford. A. A. Hay 6 h.p. Ariel J. S. Campbell.
The other entries are:
Entrant. Machine. Rider. H. Collier 6 h.p. Matchless C. R. Collier. H. Collier 6 h.p. Matchless H. A. Collier. H. Rignold 8 h.p. Rignold H. Rignold. E. F. Johnson 8 h.p. Humber J. F. Crundall. W. A. Richards 12 h.p. Barry Not named. W. A. Richards 12 h.p. Barry Not named. W. A. Richards 12 h.p. Barry Not named. G. A. Barnes 10 h.p. Barnes G. A. Barnes. G. Wilton 10 h.p. Barnes G. Wilton.
There is also another entrant who, as yet, remains anonymous. Mr Davies, it will be observed, has entered two machines.
