REPLACING THE CAMEL
NEW ZEALANDERS RUN CARS THE CAE A VAN ROUTES. LONDON, September 3. By putting limousines on the oldest caravan routes in the world two living New Zealanders have eclipsed Macaulay’s New Zealander in picturesqueness. They are the Nairn brothers, who went to Syria during the war. It struck them that transport there was not all it might be. They decided to show the camels what machines could do. DANGER FROM NATIVES, First, they had an unlucky experience with steam cars. But they got over thatj and established a motor mail service from Beirut, Syria, to Haifa, on the Palestine coast. More romantic still, they revived the old caravan route from Damascus to Bagdad, replacing camels with limousines.
Norman—one of tho pair—surveyed tho Jerusalem-Bagdad route, which will connect Bagdad with Europe in the event of trouble in Syria. Nairn cars were attacked last week by rebels, who wounded a woman and two men.
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Evening Star, Issue 19044, 12 September 1925, Page 3
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