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1912<br />
Pateley Bridge 10th August<br />
Map Key 15<br />
Sunbeam Coupe de Auto with Coatalen at the wheel at Pateley Bridge<br />
As usual Yorkshire Automobile Club Held the Pateley Bridge hill climb, on the day Coatalen's<br />
GP winning Coupe de Auto Sunbeam and Higginson's Great 80 hp La Buire tied for Fastest<br />
Time of the Day.<br />
Woods 20 hp Crossley did not attend, but would have made interesting competition for<br />
those who did, having beaten the la Buire more than once previously and was to beat both<br />
Coatalen's and another works GP Sunbeam before the month was out.<br />
Woods had previously failed to start on a technicality in the 1911 Pateley Bridge event<br />
having not weighed in on time, so it is easy to surmise that he had issues with the organisers<br />
which may have discouraged him from entering the Crossley works cars in 1912.<br />
Of the nineteen runners in the open class the 15hp Straker-Squire of Mr R. H. Witchell won,<br />
with the 15 hp Crossley entered by W. M. Letts driven by Bianchi coming second.<br />
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