TO BREAK RECORD
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SMITHY'S ATTEMPT Rec. Sept. 13, 5 j.m.
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By Telephone — "Post Special Service. SYDNEY, Sunday. It was announced to-day that Kingsford Smith shortly int.ends to endeavour to lower MoIIison's record from Australia to London in his new Avro Sports Avian machine, fitted with a De Haviland Mark 2 engine, now being assembled at Mascot. The machine will be i called "The Southern Cross Minor". From Seaham, his route will be Cheribon, Victoria Point, Calcutta, Karachi, Baghdad, Athens, Paris and London, a total distance of 10,073 miles. Smithy expects to land at Croyden on the seventh day after his departure.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 18, 14 September 1931, Page 3
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