Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-18 | Page 10 | Coughing 'Crocks' Crazily Careen in Course Contest

Coughing Crocks Crazily Careen in Course Contest LONDON Nov 18 UP Eighty RI-Eighty Eighty ancient automobiles the the the oldest I made in 1896 the youngest in 1904 coughed into inlo action today despite despite de despite de- de spite damp November weather and rattled their way from Lendon London London Lon Len I don to Brighton through a pouring pouring pour pour- I ing rain for tho the annual old crocks race They commemorated thus the emancipation day of 1896 when a 12 miles an hour speed limit vas was abolished and cars allowed to take the road without being preceded by a man waving a red flag Jag to warn horses and pedestrians Almost ditched by sleek k sines which swept by in showers of mud the old crocks once crocks once the p pride ido of oC their owners owners made made madea a n sorry spectacle as the they plowed past speed signs they simply could not exceed Some had to give up being towed Ignominiously Ignominiously from tho the course Sixty-eight Sixty veterans of f the road finally panted triumphantly into Brighton L I