REMARKABLE MOTORING FEAT
o SAHARA' CROSSED IN ORDINARY ' CAR. . Paris, January 21. From Paris to Naimey in Nigeria in eight days is the remarkable motoring exploit of Lieutenant Estienne. Hitherto it had been supposed that special cars were necessary to cross the Sahara.: At first caterpillar wheels were tried, and then the six-wheeled car. Estienne conquered the desert in a small ordinary six horse-power car. He left Paris in the afternoon of January 7, embarked for Oran next day, and reached Naimey on the morning of January. 15, and handed to the Governor a Paris letter onlv a week old, whereas normally the post takes six weeks. Estienne intends to proceed to Zinder and Kano.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 101, 24 January 1927, Page 11
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115REMARKABLE MOTORING FEAT Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 101, 24 January 1927, Page 11
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