NEW SAHARA RECORD.
ACROSS IN SIX DAYS. (BY CABLE —KSEBS ASSOCIATION corißicirrO (AtTSTBALIAH AND H.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) . PARIS, February 4. The trans-Sahara record was eclipsed by three Renault motor-cars, .which covered, tho same route in six days. The cars, fitted with six ordinary wheels coupled in pairs, averaged two hundred miles per day. ' The worst- feature of the journey was the enormous differences, in the temperature, which averaged 45 degrees centigrade in the daytime, sinking to freezing point at night. [lt was announced yesterday morning that three Citroen motor-cars, fitted with caterpillar wheels, had crossed the great desert in seven days.]
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17990, 6 February 1924, Page 9
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101NEW SAHARA RECORD. Press, Volume LX, Issue 17990, 6 February 1924, Page 9
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