I'm afraid I can only provide a bit of the answer... the text describes this as an "experimental year" with the rider paced by scooter instead of the more normal Derny.
I've seen race results for the early years listing "Stage A", "Stage B", "Stage C", so at one time it was a divided event, but I don't know if that was all on the same day, or what. Anyone else have more info? Mick? Brett? Sergio?
I'll keep checking for articles from other years.
Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio
>I was interesterd to see that the Roma-Napoli-Roma race was paced behind
>what looks like an early Vespa scooter. How many other races, other than
>Bordeaux/Paris, were paced races? Was Roma-Napoli-Roma paced the whole way,
>or did they pick up the pacers part way in like Bordeaux/Paris?
>
> These old pics are great, I wish I had kept my Dad's old copies of
> Cycling magazine from the 30's up to the late 50's, unfortunately they all
> got chucked in the garbage.
>
> Brian (now it's freezing rain in Toronto) Booth
> Toronto, Ontario, Canada