10,000-MILE TOUR

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 71, 17 December 1937, Page 3

10,000-MILE TOUR

English Students’ Drive Through Europe ‘'Dominion" Special Service. —By Air Mail. London, November 30. Two 19-year-old English students returned to London this week after a 10,000-mile trip in a second-hand car through Europe, Asia Alinor and North Africa. Their expenses were about £45 each. One of them, Mr. Edward Delson, of Esher, Surrey, said (hat lie and his friend, Air. Arthur Cricklay, of Redhill, Surrey, took ten weeks’ holiday to make Ihe journey. They slept only three nights in hotels,, using campbeds the rest of the time. One night they slept in the shadow of the Pyramids.

Their only breakdowns were three broken springs and a few punctures. After leaving London on July ’l5 they crossed Europe via Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey, taking three weeks to reach Instanbul.

“The Greek and Turkish roads were worse than anything we encountered in Asia or Africa,” said Air. Delson. “In Greece for many miles our route could hardly even be qualified as a mule track.

“In Turkey we had to build our own pontoons, roads coming to an abrupt end where previously there hail beeu a bridge.”