CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3, 4 September 1913, Page 7

CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

Captain 11. X. Kelsey and five con: par,. on s will siiort-iy be leaving En< : iar.il for South Africa with the inter. ;itj.i of endeavoring to motor acros mo continent from Capetown to Cairo ih: ; trip lias not yet been accomplish od 'y motor, '1 lie car to be used i a ladi.p. Argyll, fitted with a specia hotly so constructed that one half ' carried im-dde the other when iitte on the chassis. Both portions can b taken off tho chassis and bolted to gethor to form a boat-shaped ppi. torn capable of carrying the 'chassi ii:d baggage across streams. '1 h car is being fitted with large diametc ■•'.iiikey -steel wheals, shod with 101' x I'2'j m.m. D-unlop tyres. The ca which has a ground clearance of this Lean inches is. equipped with a clynam i!"' electric lighting set. A trailer fa ■anying baggage will form part* o tha equipment. The car was to be in .-pitted by King Ceerge at Buckin;.' h.-aa Palace prior to the departure • : ■■/■■■ party, who \vei' ( > also to be pn ea!ed to his Majesty. .V South African motorist name ', 1 ;i;i!i;i. has sneccofied in racing th ■■ad way express from Johannesburg ! Ihirban, a distance of 482 miles. Chan hn started when the express trai: ! "l Johainioaburg ai 8 p.m. and wa in Durban at 0. !■"> p.m. the foUowin; i.ia'it, beating the irain by forty rnin ut. -;. His grosK time was 22hrs •!' 'id !., canal to ,an average .speed o' ovr 21 tidies an hour. This cany no J so- ai much to motorists in this com: try, but when (as i atiirc of the conr a-v across be vadd's is conradcr-' 1 lf > 'ay no.hing of the climb over I!' p,i' ■,]•; a 1 !)-!-"; mountains, ontorinn' Xafa 1 th- n tht> umi-ii of Chaplin's oa"\al diT ■•'■•ill be r-;.lised. Th.' leaf was iir ■■■ ■'. aiiisb-al C n ;1 Talbot, n r!U . (], ; , 'ns matin a jTj-pnl name for itself ;: retard breaking in .Australia.