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16 carriage, which covered the entire course in 67 hours 42 minutes and 58 seconds, equivalent to a mean velocity of 15·65 miles an hour. This carriage was followed closely by other vehicles of the same house. The greatest speed during a single stage was about eighteen miles an hour.

The Peugeot carriages also did good work. The firm Delahaye of Tours made its reputation on this occasion by one of its vehicles, which came in a good fourth.

But the most prominent event of this test was the extra-



ordinary power of resistance displayed by the new petroleum tricycles constructed by the firm Dion and Bouton. Contrary to all prognostications, these diminutive vehicles, the weight, of which is hardly more than that of the man who mounts them, covered the immense course almost as fast as the carriages, in spite of horrible weather and a veritable èquinoctial cyclone during the second and third days—from Thursday, the 24th, at midnight, to Friday, the 25th, at noon, the barometer fell about 1$1⁄8$ inch.