A Big Trip in a Small Car.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 10, 1 August 1907, Page 363

A Big Trip in a Small Car.

A record of achievement by a practical man has much impressed us — Car, 8 h.p. 1905 Darracq tomieau, accumulator and coil ignition, driving tyres 700x90, non-slipping Dunlops ; weight of driver and passenger about nineteen stone, as much luggage as tonneau would hold, three spare covers, spare can of petrol, etc. — in all, equal to more than three people. The following is the record ; voluntary stops, stops due to overthrottling when standing, and stops due to empty petrol tank are not counted against the car : This thing started from Glasgow in July 31 of last year, and on to Carlisle the first day 95 miles, and got to Fowey in the remote end of Cornwall (travelling by Chester, Hereford and Exeter) on August 4th, spent the rest of August touring round Fowey in the highest part of Cornwall, travelled back by Barnstaple, Bath, London, Granton, Darlington, and Dumfries to Glasgow, arriving there on September 10th.