WORLD'S NON-STOP RECORD
WHIPPETS ! .005 HOURS' RUN After ruming f r 1 toots c n;r-? the period Z \-.~Z '• utiles. us sho~.T, l • i esc’jrEE re test. was officially sri::h^ - n ■ - ?-r.e record, an Overland-WhiDpet ermine was officially sealed, after T'.;: r ie car was started on its schedoZs. Nt 5 it ii - i - I cur It -us impossible to sun me - l tiie gen the j L. ■ which :s acclaimed as a world reurdL— Shortly after midday on Mecday. March 12, the engine while running - started, was voluntarily stopped, and uhe seals f ound to be imam -.he actual - - 1,005 hours—three hours less than 4_ days—while during its road periods the car had covered 1 io€l3 miles —about : equivalent to a year's hard driving at j | the hauls of the average private owner. • The performance forms an emphatic : endorsement of the statement that toe I modem light car, as exemplined 1 y the new Overland-Whippet- is capable of performing in a manner hitherti re- ; garded as possible only with big ex- ; pensive cars.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 337, 24 April 1928, Page 8
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174WORLD'S NON-STOP RECORD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 337, 24 April 1928, Page 8
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