When she had proved her ability to ride and keep the motorcycle running her father gave her a Calthorpe which she later sold at profit in order to buy an ex WD Triumph 500 cc.

After winning a gold medal in the North Wales Open Trial a motorcycle manufacturer in Wrexham, Powell, gave her a works supported machine.

[5] Hugh Gibson planned to ride round the coast of Great Britain on a 7 hp, 798 cc Raleigh and sidecar.

Marjorie announced that "What man can do, woman can do" and that she would ride the same route at the same time but in the opposite direction so as not to interfere with the official test.

Raleigh's adverts featured a similar machine which was to be awarded to whoever guessed correctly (or nearest to) the number of towns and villages that she passed through.

[12] One retailer's journal, The Garage and Motor Agent, was particularly enthusiastic about Miss Cottle's promotional activities on behalf of the motorcycle industry.

Not only did she demonstrate that physical strength was not crucial for operating a motorcycle, but this magazine was especially impressed with "the fact that Miss Cottle always manages to look nice when engaged in her exploits, and not the least like a professional motor cyclist."

The Auto Cycle Union selected female riders Marjorie Cottle, Louie McLean and Edyth Foley as British B squad for the International Six Days Trial (ISDT) in August 1927 as they had done the year before.

She won a gold medal and a special award from Raleigh for "her perseverance, endurance and expert riding ability in the most severe and difficult trial ever recorded".

[19] Since then a number of women riders including Mary Driver in the sixties, Maria Conway and Katy Sunter have competed in this event.

By 1926 there were so many women participating in various races and trials throughout Britain that the Motor Cycle Manufacturers' Union, the industry's trade organisation, decided to honour some of the more prominent ones with a special banquet in London.

[citation needed] Miss Cottle won the prize for the best performance by a "lady rider" in the 1927 Scott Trial.

[21] After competing in the famous Scott Trials, the magazine 'The Motor Cycle' had to admit she had successfully finished the grueling course "while burly men had given up from sheer exhaustion".

[13] The fact that she was often the only female entrant and very successful meant she often featured in daily newspapers, motorcycle magazines and general publications.

Many event reports included comments like "smiling as happily as ever"[24] or on how smart she looked when her fellow riders were disheveled and muddy.

[32] According to Koerner:[13] For several years after she gave up competing, she was employed by the BSA company as one of their motor cycle sales representatives although she seems to have been kept in the showrooms not where she wanted to be, out on the road or riding in competition events.

[5] She was interviewed and filmed riding a BSA Bantam by the BBC in 1968[34] Marjorie died on 17 July 1987 in Chester hospital after a short illness.