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Rh right to say such a race was not to be run another time at night.

The general mean of his velocity was 14·91 miles an hour; the maximum was eighteen and a half miles an hour, between Orleans and Tours.

The vehicle which had accomplished this marvellous record without a single break-down or any stops (except those required to take in water and petroleum and one stop for cleaning, of about a quarter of an hour, near Bordeaux), weighed 11·87 cwt. without supplies or the weight of the two



men riding. It had three speeds, six, twelve and a half, and eighteen and a half miles an hour, the normal number of revolutions being 750. The motor, a new type of 'Phoenix' built by M. Levassor, was a Daimler, modified and much perfected. The Levassor carriage, like all the swift carriages engaged in this race, was mounted on solid rubber tyres.

A steam carriage, by Dion and Bouton, of about fifteen horse-power, which had been making between thirty and thirty-eight miles an hour on test, kept the lead to near Vouvray, on the banks of the Loire, where a break-down in the shafting