Hill Climbing Motor Contest
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Hill Climbing Motor Contest is an article published in The Manchester Courier on 17 april 1905.
Hill Climbing Motor Contest
SUCCESS OF SIR A. CONAN DOYLE.
The West Surrey Motor Club decided a hill climbing contest on Hindhead Hill on Saturday. The distance was nearly three miles, and the gradient one in twenty. Sir A. Conan Doyle, on a ten horse power Wolseley, was first, his actual time being 9 min. 56 sec. M. Tessier's ten horse power Motobloc was second, and M. Leon's four-teen horse power Renault was third.
