CAR RELIABILITY TRIAL

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27396, 8 July 1954, Page 11

CAR RELIABILITY TRIAL

N.Z. ENTRANTS LOSE NO POINTS (Rec. 8 p.m.) BRISBANE, July 7. Drivers in the Redex Around-Aus-tralia car reliability trial today risked death or injury as they bounced and skidded in pot-holes and dust-traps on the deep-rutted road from Tonwsville to Mount Isa. Treacherous holes, filled with dust, deceived drivers who were

iriving into an exhausting glare. The first of the 245 cars still in the rial left Townsville at 11.14 a.m. and s scheduled to reach Mount Isa at 2.14 am. tomorrow. There the crews wiU Have a well-deserved 12 ? hours rest after passing over what will probably be one of the worst sections of the tr When U they left Townsville neither of the New Zealand teams (led by K. Berge, of Hastings, and W. Culver, of Thames) had lost any points. Many drivers today wore masks to protect themselves from the =h° k *RB dust on the 613-mile run to Mount Cars skidded in foot-deep red dust, and some slewed off the road into earth banks or tree stumps. One car killed a steer at 40 miles an hour when it wandered across the ro d. The car escaped with damage to it kangaroo guard and » diato . A nth pt car was not so lucxy. charging cow near Townsville kn ° cl it into a bog The car overturned and ffie c?ew took nearly haif aD ' ri The lt most gruelling section of the SrtVacks tnd stony outcrops. Offi-

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