. Factory and industrial management. e skillful guidance of Mr. S. F. Edge gainedthe Gordon Bennett cup. although in competition with the best carsand most skilled drivers that France could put upon the road. The 856 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. race for the Gordon Bennett cup was run over the same course andat the same time as the Paris-Vienna race, but ended at Innsbruck inthe Austrian Tyrol, about 900 kilometres from Paris. The four carscompeting in this race started first amongst the Paris-Vienna carsand numbered, for France a Panhard-Levassor of 70 horse powerdriven by M. Rene de Knyfif, a C
. Factory and industrial management. e skillful guidance of Mr. S. F. Edge gainedthe Gordon Bennett cup. although in competition with the best carsand most skilled drivers that France could put upon the road. The 856 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. race for the Gordon Bennett cup was run over the same course andat the same time as the Paris-Vienna race, but ended at Innsbruck inthe Austrian Tyrol, about 900 kilometres from Paris. The four carscompeting in this race started first amongst the Paris-Vienna carsand numbered, for France a Panhard-Levassor of 70 horse powerdriven by M. Rene de Knyfif, a C. G. V. car of about 60 horse powerdriven by M. Girardot, and a Mors car of 60 horse power driven byM. Henri Fournier, whilst England was represented by the Napierlight car driven by Mr. Edge. The result of this race, as of the Paris-Vienna, was a triumph for the light car. At about 70 kilometres fromthe start the C. G. V. car gave way under the strain of excessivespeed; at about 250 kilometres a similar fate awaited Fournier on his. A GROUP OF MOTOR BICYCLES. THE FIRST TWO ARRIVALS WERE WERNERS. Mors, whilst R. de Knyff, the engine of whose car, it may be men-tioned, ran on alcohol, when within 50 kilometres of Innsbruck andvirtually holding the assurance of success, was put hors dc combatby a broken differential. The cup thus fell to Edge, whose cartravelled consistently well throughout, maintaining a good average al-though not a very high speed. The Napier car, which is the first Eng-lish vehicle to be victorious in a Continental race, is a totally differentdesign from the vehicles of the same firm which since the 1,000 milestrial of 1899 have occupied a prominent position amongst British cars. THE PARIS-riENNA MOTOR-CAR RACES. 857 It is of the category of light cars, and carries an engine developingabout 35 brake horse power of the four-cylinder vertical type, high-speed and short-stroke, with very large pipes and valves. As is almost invariably the case in these important
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