THE CARAVAN ROUTES.
MOTORS REPLACE CAMELS. NEW ZEALAND ENTERPRISE. LONDON. Sept. 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 aiachines could dO. w;,
Firefj, • they had an unlucky' experience with steam cars. But they got over that, and established a motor mail service from Beirut, Syria, to Haifa, on the Palestine coast. v , More romantic still, they revived tho old cavaran route from Damascus to Bagdad, replacing camels with limousines. Norman —one of the pair—surveyed the 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19119, 10 September 1925, Page 9
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