ROADLESS VEHICLE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 25

ROADLESS VEHICLE

CLAIM OF SIX-WHEELER

The introduction of six-wheeled petrol vehicles has met with immediate success in many of the undeveloped parts of the world by reason, of the fact that the easo with which these vehicles can negotiate cross-country,' and particularly surmount the difficulties of virgin territory, make it possible for them to penetrate where beforo the only means of transport was by ; animals. Indeed^ instances are coming.constantly under notice where, these vehicles have successfully negotiated;tracts of country through which ■ it was formerly impossible even to take animals. • A six-wheeled lorry recently completed the run from Sao Paulo, Brazil, to a place on the borders of, Matto Grosso, a distance of approximately 1000 kilometres. :' This feat is all the more noteworthy asihe route traversed had never previously been negotiated by a vehicle : of any kind, only.animal transport having been possible. Much of the journey was through virgin forest, where a^passage had to be cut or the ground excavated to enable the vehicle to pass under trees which were too large to be felled. Innumerable obstacles were enr countered, but after eight days' strenuous efforts,' more it should be mentioned on the part of the crew than the vehicle, the lorry reached its destination carrying,its full load of two and a half tons.. ' ' • < ■ '-,-' "Wherever road conditions are exceptionally bad, or even in districts where there are no roads at all, the rigid sixwheeler can be safely' depended upon to give satisfactory service, with boundless opportunities for the commercial development' of ■ districts which have hitherto been handicapped. by lack of transport facilities... .■ .. ;.,.■.'.