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MOTOR-CYCLE ENDURANCE FEAT Cabled advice has been received by (he Shell Company of New Zealand, Limited, of a motor-cycling endurance feat which is without parallel. Ridden in relays by six British motor-cyclists a 350 c.c. Dnnelt covered 40,235.5 kilometres in 554 hours S minutes (an average speed of 72.606 kilometres an hour) between March 8 and 3i, at the Monthlery track, near Paris. This represents about four years mileage to the average motorist or motor-cyclist—all covered in 24 days, during which period the engine was not decarbonised.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 639, 16 April 1929, Page 6
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89WITHOUT PARALLEL Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 639, 16 April 1929, Page 6
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