NEW MOTOR RECORD
RELAY DRIVERS PUT UP FAST TIME RUN OF 146 HOURS Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. 1 p.m. PARIS, Tuesday. Four drivers, Marchant, Morel, Kiriloff and Le Roy, with a Voisin ear, and driving in relays, broke the world’s record for 20,000 kilometres by covering the distance in 146 hours three minutes 8.92 seconds. Twenty thousand kilometres equals approximately 12,500 miles, which gives an average speed over the course of 55.6 m.p.h.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 777, 25 September 1929, Page 9
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77NEW MOTOR RECORD Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 777, 25 September 1929, Page 9
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