Clyno at speed

In 1913, action photography was really still in its infancy – although it was 36 years since Eadweard Muybridge’s famous movement pictures of the horse Occident, it was yet a relatively primitive hit-and-miss process, which makes this picture of H G R Slingo and energetic passenger, on a 5-6hp Clyno V-twin, more impressive.

In report of the event, the MCC Standard Reliability and Hillclimbing Trial, (published August 7, 1913), it reckoned