Endurance Run
One of the recently-an-nounced Australian Morris 1500 saloons with the over-head-camshaft Austin Maxi engine has just completed a 15,000-mile high-speed endurance test in Australia.
The car covered 15,606 miles in the Northern Territory in 10 days, averaging more than 60 m.p.h. throughout and making a best oneday run of 1798 miles. Nine drivers took part in the run, and tiie engine was kept running non-stop except for oilchanges at 3000-mile intervals.
Over-all fuel consumption worked out at 25 m.p.g., the heaviest consumption being 22 m.p.g. during a run of 970 miles in less than 12 hours, and the best being 33 m.p.g. when the car had to slow to miss kangaroos. On one night run the drivers counted 93 kangaroos, a wild pig, a wild donkey and two elephants. The elephants turned out to be attached to a local circus, British Leyland reports, but the sighting caused the driver to hand over the wheel to his co-driver.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32127, 24 October 1969, Page 9
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159Endurance Run Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32127, 24 October 1969, Page 9
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