OVERLAND TO AUSTRALIA.
MOTORIST'S PROPOSED TOUR. (BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPXRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, October If). The ear which Francis Birtles will use for his trip to Australia is the same as that employed for the Sydney: to Darwin record trip. It resembled an ironmongery shop, with spare wheels, chains, tin-cans, tool-boxes, tho whole outfit contrasting strangely with t'ho luxurious limousines and liveried chauffeurs standing at Olympia. He drove with an open exhaust, which roared above London's traffic, every bus driver craning his neck openmouthed with astonishment. Even horses turned to look.
Birtles has no language but his own, but ho reckons to get along all right. He expects to he five months en route, via Europe, Syria, Iraq, Persia, Burma, Siam, Sumatra, Java, thence by ship to Darwin and overland to Sydney. Parts of Siam and Malaya have not been traversed by car.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 21 October 1927, Page 8
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145OVERLAND TO AUSTRALIA. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 21 October 1927, Page 8
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