10,000-MILE DRIVE

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27407, 21 July 1954, Page 7

10,000-MILE DRIVE

ADVENTUROUS TRIP TO BRITAIN (N.Z. Press Association—Copyric ht) •LONDON, Jjly 19. Two New Zealanders and a British engineer who have just arrived in Britain after motoring 10,000 miles from Wellington in a “prairie waggon” found a new use for washbasins during the trip. It was in India, where an elephant invaded their camp one night. “We started banging our enamel basins and the elephant moved off,” the British member of the party, Mr Cameron Pollock, aged 31, of Gravesend, Trent, said today, according to the “Evening News.” Mr Pollock’s New Zealand companions were Mr Don Money, aged 29, a veterinary surgeon, and Mr Gerrit van Asch, aged 32 a farmer. The three men travelled thirteen countries in their 23 h.p. “prairie waggon.” The journey—including 4800 miles by sea—took them six months. “It was a trip well worth making, but I can think of more comfortable ways of coming home,” was Mr Pollock’s verdict. In up-country India, he said, a police chief told them that if they happened to knock anyone down the best thing to do would be to get away quickly—because the villagers were apt to attack drivers and burn the vehicles involved in accidents. The travellers ran out of petrol only once—on the final lap from Dover to Gravesend.