SEVERE DRIVING TEST
RUSSIAN WOMEN OVER 6000 MILES TWO MONTHS ON WAV (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Oct. 7, 3 p.m.) MOSCOW, Oct, 6. Folly-five women have just completed a gruelling two months’ automobile expedition across Soviet Russia designed to test their stamina. They covered 6963 miles in 45 days of actual driving. The cars were manufactured in Russia and averaged 139 miles a. day. The route was through seven republics of the Soviet Union. Every type of weather was experienced and the expedition traversed the camel trails of Kazakstan, footpaths through salt, marshes in Little Karakuni, and mountain ridges in the Urals.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19139, 7 October 1936, Page 6
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