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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 130, 29 November 1932, Page 9

- A LONE KECOED.' Only a few days-ago one of the inbst interesting, andsporting of-records was performed by .Captain. Yato Benyon, who started overland.pn^4th. July, from London to- race the British-India steamship Manofa to He drove alone; His"car was only a little 10-iorse-po%ver Hillman Minx; he covered 6800 odd miles at aiuaTCrag&.of 207 miles in 33 days; he reached the confines of India—Quetta —at the same time that the steamship, reached-^Calcutta-;: and his effort, v perf ormed in a 10-horsepower car, constitutes" a record far in advance of anything tif the kind-lip to' date Very hard ~t<> =beat; ■= • Certainly; he "was beaten-by ±he ship.-Probably- : he never expected to -svin^but regarded1 his rival as a "pace-maker,^ to keep' hini up to his task; but let anyone try to lower his record in what is practically a fcaby car over Yugoslavian, Turkish, and. Persian roads (Heaven forgivo the word!), and ho,-will Appreciate the magnitude, of- the.-achievement. Quito frankly; how Captain Benyon and his little Minx stood up to it we do not know. All honour to them. bqth.— Eeprintcd from "The .Times," London, 19th August, 1932.—Advt.. •:..-., ■