LONDON TO SYDNEY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20039, 4 March 1927, Page 9

LONDON TO SYDNEY

JOURNEY BY MOTOR CAR. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, March 2. (Received March 3, at 5.5 p.m.) Messrs Ellis, Birtles, and Knowles left Sofia on Sunday for Constantinople. All are well.—A. and N.Z. Cable. A message from London which was published on February 10 stated :—Practically unnoticed in the midst of London’s throng, Messrs Ellis, Birtles, and Knowdes left the Automobile Association’s headquarters in Leicester square in an Imperial six-cylinder car for a journey which it is hoped will end at Martin place, Sydney. The three travellers arc attired in leather coats and fur-lined aviator caps. The car was loaded down with the maximum of spare parts and provisions, under the supervision of Mr Birtles, whose lifetim experience produced a workmanlike effect. The car is a busi-ness-like machine of the sturdiest construction, und when fully loaded weighs two and a-half tons. After a few handclasps from friends and supporters, including Sir Charles Wakefield, and a final examination of the 47 documents which are necessary for the various countries through which they will he passing, the expedition turned the car into Coventry street had disappeared into the heart of London’s traffic.