In 1906 another event was organized in France by the Matin. It was hardly in the nature of a race, but a trial of over six thousand kilometres, an extended tour de France.
Forty-two automobiles of all ranks left the Place de la Concorde at Paris on the 2d of August, and thirty-three arrived at Paris on the 28th of the same month, twenty of them without penalization of any sort. No such reliability trial was ever held previously, and it showed that the worth of the comparatively tiny eight and ten horse machines for the work was quite as great as that of the forty and sixty horse monsters.
The following tables show plainly the value of this great trial.
COUPE DU MATIN
LIST OF AUTOMOBILES ENGAGED
CLASS "ROUES" (SPRING WHEELS AND ANTI-SKIDS)
1.Antidérapant Néron de Deitrich
2." Vulcain I. de Dion-Bouton
3." Vulcain II. Corre
33.Roues Élastiques Soleil Rochet-Schneider
38." Garchey I. de Dion-Bouton
39." Garchey II. Mieusset
42." E. L. Delauney-Belleville
CLASS ENDURANCE
1st Category - Motocyclettes, vitesse maxima, 25 kilomètres à l'heure
35.Motocyclette Lurquin-Coudert
64." Albatross (Motor Buchet)
67." René Gillet
2d Category - Tri-cars, vitesse maxima, 25 kilomètres à l'heure
4.Mototri Contal I.
5.Mototri Contal II.
3d Category - Voiturette 1 cylindre, alésage maximum 110 millimètres
6.Fouillaron
8.De Dion-Bouton et Cie I.
9.Darracq et Cie
12.De Dion-Bouton et Cie II.
18.Cottereau I.
25.Voiturette Roy
30.Voiturette G. R. A. R.
34.Voiturette Darracq II.
47.Voiturette Lacoste & Battmann I.
48.Voiturette Lacoste & Battmann II.
49.Voiturette Lacoste & Battmann III.
59.Voiturette Alcyon
4th Category
Voitures 2 cylindres, alésage maximum 130 millimètres, ou 4 cylindres, alésage maximum 85 millimètres
10. Darracq II.
11. Darracq
13. De Dion-Bouton et Cie III.
15. D. Thuault
19. Cottereau II.
20. Cottereau III.
21. Cottereau IV.
22. Kallista I.
23. Kallista II.
44. Panhard et Levassor
46. Corre
51. X.
5th Category - Voitures 4 cylindres, alésage maximum 105 millimètres
7. C. V. R. I.
16. De Dion-Bouton et Cie IV.
17. De Dion-Bouton et Cie V.
28. Renault Frères
29. C. I. A.
31. C. V. R. II.
43. Darracq V.
50. Herald
57. Panhard
60. De Dion-Bouton et Cie VI.
61. Bayard Clèment I.
65. Corre
66. Berliet
6th Category - Voitures 4 cylindres, alésage maximum 126 millimètres
14. Mercédès I.
24. Scrive
26. Pilain I.
27. Pilain II.
32. C. V. R. III.
45. Gobron
52. Mors.
53. Mercédès II.
55. Clément
58. Darracq IV.
62. Bayard-Clément II.
63. C. V. R. IV.
68. Mercédès III.
7th Category - Voitures 4 cylindres, alésage maximum 140 millimètres
36. Siddely
37. Siddely
56. Fiat