Round The World By Wheelbarrow
Reasoning that it was no longer news to take a plane around the world, cowboy Larry Hightower. 47, of Washington State, U.S.A., decided two years ago to tour the world with a wheelbarrow. Now he has arrived at Baltimore (Maryland) after travelling 7250 miles by devious routes from the West to the East Coast. He was still pushing the barrow, weighing 1031 b, with equipment. After pushing across England, he will take a ship to Burma and then travel across country to Persia, later visiting Central Europe, and returning to America by ship. Hightower can push his barrow 11 miles without stopping. He has an eigh-hour rest after every 65 miles. He realises that it may be six more years before he completes his tour.
1949 A. &. P. SHOW Schedules obtainable from Secretary, Box 87, Whakatane.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 45, 24 January 1949, Page 7
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141Round The World By Wheelbarrow Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 45, 24 January 1949, Page 7
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