MOTORING HAZARDS
THRILLING ENDURANCE TEST TURNS ON TWO WHEELS By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright , PARIS, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Bruce, who are attempting to establish many new motoring records at the Montlhery track, Paris, and to cover 15,000 miles in ten days and nights, yesterday covered 1,900 miles in 24 hours, averaging nearly SO miles an hour. Mrs. Bruce maintained SO miles an hour for a period of nine hours, while her husband slept. The motorists experienced a dramatic escape while driving through a thick fog. Twice the car nearly went off the track. Mrs. Bruce gavo the steering wheel a wrench and the car careered on two side wheels until it regained its course.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 226, 13 December 1927, Page 9
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