MOTORING RECORD.
20,000 MILES NON-STOP. (Received 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, March 23. Lionel Rapson, driving a Marmon car with Rapson tyres, completed a world's record for 20,000 miles non-stop in which he made 66,000 circuits of Mirama's track. He is 36 hours ahead of schedule and is now changing tyres aad "decarbonising the engine with a view- to completing 60,000 miles.
—(A. and NJS. and Sydney "Sun.")
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1928, Page 9
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66MOTORING RECORD. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1928, Page 9
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