STILL BREAKING RECORDS
“WIZARD" SMITH’S STUDEBAKER When lie arrived in Sydney at 6.44 p.m. on Thursday, April 5, W orman Smith and his Studebaker Commander roadster had three more road records to their credit —Fremantle-Adelaide, Fremantle-Melbourne, and FremantleSydney—and were keen on taking a fourth. Despite terrible road conditions, rain and bogs over the greater part of the 3,000 miles from the West, Smith covered the distance to Sydney in 106 hours 43 minutes, which is 12 hours 22 minutes quicker than any other motorist has done it. Four hours of this time was spent in building a bridge over a creek near Melbourne to replace one which had collapsed. After only four hours’ rest, Smith and his companions—Ted Poole and Emerson —turned the Studebaker north for Brisbane, intent on completing a chain of trans-continental records. The car is a stock model, completely equipped even to mudguards, windscreen, and bumper-bars. It is the same machine that broke time and distance records on Bake Perkolilli a few weeks ago. Plume spirit and Mobiloil are being used by the Studebaker, which is shod with Goodyear tyres.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 337, 24 April 1928, Page 6
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183STILL BREAKING RECORDS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 337, 24 April 1928, Page 6
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