WORLD TOUR BY MOTOR-CAR.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19451, 26 October 1928, Page 6

WORLD TOUR BY MOTOR-CAR.

MR AND MRS G. W. ALLSOP. ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND. (PBOM OUB OWN COBHESPONDEXT.I LONDON, September 21. Mr and Mrs G. W. Allsop (Auckland) have been staying at Newcastle-on-Tyne with Mr A. M. Turnbull—(of the firm of Messrs Dickinson, Miller, and Turnbull, solicitors, and himself a New Zealander by birth) —and now they are in Edinburgh. Already Mr and Mrs Allsop have covered more than 13,000 miles by motor-car, including a desert stretch of 1800 miles, changing only two tyres en route. It is estimated that 2£ years will be needed to complete the whole tour, by which time some 40,000 miles by land and sea will have been traversed; Landing at Durban after travelling extensively in Australia* Mr and Mrs Allsop motored up to Pretoria, Bulawayo, Victoria Falls, and Livingstone, returning to Cape Town via Kimberley. where they were shown uncut diamonds valued at £IOO,OOO. They covered 4500 miles in South Africa. * According to a statement made by Mr Allsop to a Newcastle reporter, the

most intersting part of Jus journey to date has been the trip the desert from Adelaide to Perth. With onlv a camel track for a guide most of the way, his Packard car left Fowler's Bay with 12 tins of petrol each containing four gallons for the first petrol station, 600 miles away. This was reached in safety after a hazardous imirnev. A sandstorm was encounterId a$ in i*e bush, snakes 10 feet in lenzth stretched across his path—and paid the penalty for interference. A Scottish farmer on the desert presented Mr Allsop with a camel, which was useful for pulling the car out of sand drifts, but had eventually to be le The e car d is equipped for sleeping has an automatic tyre attached to the engine, and an electric fan for keeping off the mosquitoes in the tr Mr C Allsop will go from Scotland to Ireland, and reach London urNovemhpr He will visit France and South Italy during, the winter months, and will sail for Canada next April . The programme is to go from Quebec t ' Niagara, New York. Washington, Anzeles, the Califorman coast to to A°ai»nd.