ROUND THE WORLD BY MOTOR

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 235, 9 February 1911, Page 7

ROUND THE WORLD BY MOTOR

AMERICAN TRIO'S 40,000-MILE JOURNEY. TOUIUSTS ARRIVE IX AUCKLAND. There arrived in Auckland by the Wimmera on Monday throe prominent figures in the American motor trade. Messrs J. R. Brown, T. M. Halon, and T. Jones, who are encaged on a tour of 40,000 miles by motor-car. The party left Detroit. U.S.A., on November 3 last in a 20-h.p. four-cylinder Hupmobile.and they expect that to complete their tour will take them at least two years. From Detroit their route lay via Chicago, across the Western deserts and The Rock Mountains to Southern California, the objective being San Francisco, which was reached via Los Angeles. From 'Frisco the car was shipped'to Honolulu, where three weeks were spent and 1000 miles covered. The travellers readied Sydney on January 24, having covered 5200 miles by land and SOOO miles by water. They made a week's stay there, leaving on February 1 for Auckland. It is their intention to tour Xew Zealand from end to end, and the places visited in the North Island will be Rotorua, Wairakei, Lake Taupo, Xapier, Palmerston North and Wellington. From Wellington the ear will be shipped to Lyttelton, and the usual route taken to the Bluff. Thence the journey will be through Tasmania, thence to Melbourne, and overland to .Sydney, which they will leave on March 11 for Manila. Japan. China, India, South Africa, Arabia and Egypt will then he visited in turn, after which the whole of Continental Europe will be toured and the car finally shipped for Xew York after a visit to the British Isles. The tourists intend to make short trips in the vicinity of Auckland till Thursday, when they leave for the south. On the journey across America, which comparatively few motorists have accomplished, unusually difficult conditions were met with, the roads being often non-existent. On one desert in Wyoming the wind blew at sixty miles "an hour, and not only was it impossible to make any progress, but the brakes had to be put on to prevent the car from being blown backwards. The travellers left Australia with very favorable impressions, and fliev expect to have a most enjoyable time in Xew Zealand.