MOTORING NEWS.
PEKET-PABIS RACE.
EDGE'S BEKABKABUB RECORD.
(Eeeeiyed 8.34 a.m.)
LONDON, June 30. V S. Edge, of motoring and motorlaunch 'fame, ° n a 60 h -P" a P ier m*" thus, motored 15S1 miles in 24 hours i averagingnearly 66 miles an hour), on the BrooSdands course at Weybridge ,(Suirey).
(Beceived 8.37 a-m.) PARIS, June 30. idracsiara been received to the effect that the French three-wheeled motorcar in fie Pefcin-Paris motor race has been abandoned in the Gobi Desert, owing to tie exhaustion of the petrol. lie drivers, -who experienced great privation, have returned to Hankow on csmels. [Edge's aim was to cover 2000 miles ; in 24 hoars. The second message does f- tot state how far the drivers of the • notor-car had penerated the Desert of i fcbj, so that in view of the extent of i fe desert it is impossible to gather the -i J Stance travelled from Pekin.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 155, 1 July 1907, Page 5
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152MOTORING NEWS. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 155, 1 July 1907, Page 5
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