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magazine at the annual dinner of the Auto-Cycle Club held in London on 17 January 1907. It was proposed that the races would be run in two classes, with single-cylinder machines to average 90 mpg and twin-cylinder machines to average 75 mpg fuel consumption. To emphasise the road-touring nature of
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motorcycle in 4 hours, 8 minutes and 8 seconds at an average race speed of 38.21 mph. His brother, Harry
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