AUTOMOBILE EXPEDITION
ACROSS SOVIET RUSSIA TESTING STAMINA OF WOMEN (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 7th October, 11.55 a.m.) MOSCOW, 6th October. Forty-five women have just completed a gruelling : two months’ automobile expedition across Soviet Russia designed to test their stamina. They covered 6263 miles in 45 days’ actual driving. The cars were manufactured in Russia and averaged 139 miles per day. The route was through seven republics of the Soviet Union. Every type of weather was experienced and the expedition traversed camel trails in Kazakstan, salt marshes in Little Karakum, and mountain ridges in the Urals.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19361007.2.100
Bibliographic details
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 7 October 1936, Page 7
Word Count
97AUTOMOBILE EXPEDITION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 7 October 1936, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Nelson Evening Mail. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in