Gruelling Test for Soviet Women Motorists
6263 MILES BY CAR MOSCOW, Oct. 6. Forty-five women have just completed a gruelling two months’ automobile expedition across Soviet territory designed to test their stamina. ' They covered t 0263 miles in 45 days of actual driving, in cars manufactured in Russia, thus averaging 139 miles a day. Tho route lay through seven Republics of the Soviet Union, and every type of weather was encountered. The women traversed camel trails, Kazak* stan footpaths, salt marshes, in the Little Kara Hum district, and mountain ridges in the Urals.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 238, 8 October 1936, Page 7
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