10,000-Mile Bus Trip To Calcutta
(N.Z. Press Association Copyright) LONDON, April 19. A 30-seater bus has left London on a 10,000-mile journey to Calcutta. Twenty-one passengers in it have paid £B5 each for the privilege of driving for five weeks through some of the most gruelling country in the world. They will cross Europe by way of Jugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Persia, Isfahan, Quetta, Lahore, Delhi, and Calcutta. There the bus will get an overhaul and wash down and take up a new load of passengers for Britain. The bus carries camp equipment for the passengers to use when they are out of | reach of hotels.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28257, 20 April 1957, Page 2
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