ENDURANCE OF TIRES
The latest news of Francis Birtles, who is motoring alone from England to Australia —about 16,000 miles—is from Calcutta, India, where he arrived safely on Sunday, Bth January. He had a thrilling, but nerve-racking experience in getting through to this point. In crossing Persia he was caught in a blinding snowstorm, and on one occasion, while he was sheltering, brigands bore down on him armed "with old-fash-ioned guns loaded with scrapiron, and robbed him of his blankets. The exposure to. the severe cold of this section of the journey necessitated his spending Christmas Day in hospital at Quetta, India, after which he made good progress. He intends continuing his journey via North Bengal, Burma, and Malaya— which will be one of the hardest tests of the tour, \he country being wild and hilly jungle, and inhabited by very sayage tribes —then .by water to Darwin and overland to Melbourne. The trip is largely one of a tire test over the 16,000 miles journey. So far the set is reported to be standing the ordeal splendidly.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 18
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178ENDURANCE OF TIRES Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 18
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