1920's Silver Motorcycling Club Prize Vesta Case - London to Lands End E. J. Sleep

An interesting 1920's documentary silver prize Vesta Case of flat oval form with sliding mechanism to open and striker to one end, the face with applied gold medallion for the Motorcycling Club London to Lands End long distance classic trial, awarded to E.J.Sleep, April 10-11, 1925.

By Mappin & Webb, Birmingham, 1924.

E. J. Sleep competed in the historic London to Land's End Trial during the 1920s driving an Alvis 12/50 sports car. Organised by The Motor Cycling Club (MCC), this grueling event remains one of the UK’s oldest and most legendary long-distance reliability trials. E. J. Sleep was among the early motoring pioneers who entered the MCC trials using the iconic British Alvis 12/50. Historical records and photographic archives from the Austin Harris Collection capture Sleep tackling the event's notorious sections in both the 1925 and 1928 editions.

THE MOTORCYCLING CLUB
At the turn of the 20th Century, a small handful of automotive pioneers established the Club with one mission in mind. To test themselves and their machinery by trekking along the unmade and unlit roads and hills between London and Edinburgh and back. The long distance Classic reliability trial was born. The Club remains the only one that caters for such events in modern times, and takes much pride in this fact. Over 120 years of competition to date and our events are still capable of testing drivers and riders along with their machinery.
The three great classic reliability trials organised by the MCC have their own special charisma following a format which is essentially unchanged from the very earliest days of trialling. Within nine years of its foundation in 1901, the MCC was running trials from London to Edinburgh, London to Lands End and London to Exeter – and back in each case – as well as the occasional jaunt from the top of Scotland to the bottom of Cornwall. These are the events that the three MCC classics still copy and, indeed, the route of today’s Lands End Trial follows much of that used in the early days of the last century and includes hills that have changed little since the 1930s.

£270.00