CAIRO TO CAPE

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 135, 9 June 1928, Page 18

CAIRO TO CAPE

speJed dash in prospect A remarkable pioneering prelude to the project of a speed dash from London to Capetown has just begun in South Africa, where an expedition has set out. to survey the possibilities of ■building a highway from Capetown, through the heart of Central Africa, to Cairo, in Egypt. The expedition, which is tho result of a plan of Sir Abe Bailey's, consists of Mr. Of. S. Bouwer, the South African racing motorist,-with a cinematograph photographer and a motoring journalist! They are travelling in a saloon car with windows screened by a special in-sect-proof gauze. Gun racks arc fitted inside the car, and tho party's baggage is carried on the roof. They will collect all available information and data concerning the weak links in the route, the best way round swamps and over rivers, the easiest paths through jungles and mountains. When they arrive at Cairo they are to go on through' Europe to London, and then, with tho object of demonstrating how a highway through Africa is feasible and practicable, the expedition will leave London on a speed dash to Capotown' by tho route they are now surveying. It is hoped to cover the distance in six weeks.