Motor Trials
Motor Speed Trials were held on the new South Promenade on the 14th and 15th of October 1904 for the first time, and a British record of 84.6 mph was set for the “flying kilometre”.
Motor races along the Promenade
Motor trials at the Start point, South Shore
Motor Records at Blackpool – 1906
A day at Blackpool motor races was full of records. In the standing kilometre race for light racers another world record was created by Mr. A. Huntly Walker.
There were 214 competitors – another record for Blackpool. The flying kilometre for motor buses was won by Darracq- Serpollet, F.I.A.T. being second.
Mr. Guiness making a world record
The most sensational was Mr. Lee Guinness’s lowering of the world’s record for the kilometre from standing start. In a Darracq car, driving against a strong wind, he covered the distance at a speed of over sixty-eight miles an hour in 32.2 seconds, beating his owner former record by a second. He also set a new English record for the kilometre with a flying start, doing the distance in 21 sec – a speed of more than 106 miles an hour.
Miss Levitt making the ladies record
Yet, another record was set when Miss Dorothy Levitt won the ladies’ flying kilometre race in 24.3 sec.
Birds-eye view of the course
Motor-cycle race, competitors getting away
Giant competitors, the motor bus race
The flying kilometre race for £650 cars, ready to start
The flying kilometre race for £450 chassis, Argyll leads
