News comes from Paris of a new kind of ship of the. desert which has been designed to take the place of the patient camel. It is practically a Nile steamer on wheels. The wheels are to be nearly 50ft. high, with cogs to grip the sand, and the steamer, which will have four decks, will be 150 ft. long, 30ft. broad, and 42ft. high. If will carry 150 passengers and 200 tous oi
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 84, 3 January 1929, Page 8
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