ACROSS RUSSIA BY CAR
WOMEN'S SEVERE TEST TWO MONTHS' JOURNEY ENDS MOSCOW, Oct.. »i Forty-live women have just completed a gruelling two months' expedition in motor-cars across Russia, designed to test their stamina. The party covered 6263. miles in 45 days' actual driving.. Tho cars, which were manufactured in Russia, averaged 139 miles a day. The route lay through seven republics of the Soviet Union, £,nd the drivers met with every type of weather. They traversed camel trails in Kazakstan, footpaths and salt marshes in Little KaraKum and the mountain ridges of the Urals.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22544, 8 October 1936, Page 11
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