A motor expedition across Australia ■will be undertaken next May and June by Mr Michael Terry, of London, who last year drove a Ford car across 3000 miles of Northern Australia. Next year's journey will involve crossing the Great Sandy Desert. It will be equipped with a wireless installation, by which wireless bulletins of progress will be transmitted. The personnel will consist of six men, including a surveyor and a geologist. The party will travel' in three caterpillar-track motor vehicles, each of one ton capacity. The expedition will start from the Darwin railway terminus, and, after crossing. the Great Sandy Desert, will probably emerge at Port Hedland ('W.A.), though it is hoped to continue the journey «">utkwards to Perth.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18241, 27 November 1924, Page 14
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