EDINBURGH TO LONDON

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29099, 11 January 1960, Page 7

EDINBURGH TO LONDON

New Walking Record

(N.Z. Press Association — Copyright/ LONDON, January 8. Peter “Tiny” Hoy, a 29-year-old Manchester factory hand, arrived at London’s Marble Arch Police Station yesterday and claimed that he had walked the 373 miles from Edinburgh in 96hr 24min. He told reporters that he had taken a week’s holiday from work to do it. He produced a time-table of his walk bearing signatures and official stamps of police on various stages of the route, and the signatures of cafe proprietors. Mr Hoy claimed to have averaged about four miles an hour, and said he had had only about three hours rest in just over four days. He had hoped to claim a £250 prize which has already been won. But he was told on his way to London not to give up as another London man had offered £5OO for the best time. Until yesterday, the record for the 373 miles was held by Terry Hayward, aged 22, a Birmingham factory worker, who walked for six days and one hour to win a £250 prize offered by a garage proprietor, Mr Wilfred Macdougall. Mr Macdougall’s offer was for the first person to beat the time taken by Dr. Barbara Moore, aged 56, a Russian-born scientist, who completed the distance in seven days and a half last month.